Tag: Backpressure

Problems where producers overwhelm consumers, causing resource exhaustion or unhandled pressure

ID	Title	Description	Category	Technology	Tags
CRE-2025-0033 Low Impact: 7/10 Mitigation: 4/10	OpenTelemetry Collector refuses to scrape due to memory pressure	The OpenTelemetry Collector may refuse to ingest metrics during a Prometheus scrape if it exceeds its configured memory limits. When the `memory_limiter` processor is enabled, the Collector actively drops data to prevent out-of-memory errors, resulting in log messages indicating that data was refused due to high memory usage.	Observability Problems	opentelemetry-collector	Otel Collector Prometheus Memory Metrics Backpressure Data Loss Known Issue Public