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@antonio antonio commented Aug 22, 2025

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While working on reducing dropped logs in a high-volume Kubernetes setup, we found the ingestion paused input metric (added in fluent/fluent-bit#8044) to be super helpful for validating Fluent Bit health under pressure and for tuning settings like mem_buf_limit. We realized it was not called out in the docs, so this PR adds it to the metrics reference for future operators.

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Signed-off-by: Antonio Santos <antonio@santosvelasco.com>
@antonio antonio force-pushed the antonio/document-ingestion-paused-metric branch from 9621012 to cb4b357 Compare August 22, 2025 14:01
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This looks fine from a writing standpoint, but @fluent/fluent-bit-maintainers should approve for technical accuracy.

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Yeah, it's a missing piece of our docs to be one of the rigorous indicators to indicate saturating for pipeline operations. Good catch!

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esmerel commented Aug 27, 2025

If @cosmo0920 is ok with it then I'll go ahead and merge it. Thanks @antonio!

@esmerel esmerel merged commit c6890c5 into fluent:master Aug 27, 2025
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@antonio antonio deleted the antonio/document-ingestion-paused-metric branch August 28, 2025 05:01
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