Loki Kafka ingest: unclear commit and failure effects
Loki with Kafka ingest and no ingester replicas leaves unclear how commit interval and ingester failure affect recent-data queries.
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3 public reports · first reported 3 August 2026 · last reported 3 August 2026
What's going wrong
Users of Grafana Loki who are moving to Kafka-based ingest, which removes ingester replicas, report that the documentation does not explain how the Kafka consumer commit interval relates to chunk building and recovery.
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