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Articles by Alex Marquardt
Consulting Engineer, Elastic
Calculating ingest lag and storing ingest time in Elasticsearch to improve observability
Learn how to use an ingest node to add an ingest timestamp to documents and to calculate ingest lag. This data can then be used to detect unexpected slowdowns in the ingest process or to detect incorrectly set timestamps on monitored systems.
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