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Thanks for the context, in my personal experience at jobs dealing with large databases, we always used "minutes behind" to determine how well our replication wa

Thanks for the context, in my personal experience at jobs dealing with large databases, we always used "minutes behind" to determine how well our replication was keeping up. This was the first I had heard of someone using data size for that same metric.

johannes1234321 10y ago
Both have different uses. Seconds behind is useful to see how critical this is to the user (they see outdated data), data behind tells you about load and let's you guess how much time is required for catching up