What should you prioritize when monitoring a live processing job?

When monitoring a live processing job, prioritizing error messages is crucial because they provide immediate feedback on the success or failure of the processing tasks. Error messages indicate whether the job is running smoothly or if there are critical issues that need to be addressed. These messages can reveal problems related to data integrity, processing failures, or configuration issues that, if unaddressed, could lead to incomplete or inaccurate results.

By focusing on error messages, a specialist can quickly identify and remediate issues, ensuring the integrity of the data being processed. This proactive approach minimizes downtime and enhances the overall efficiency of the data processing operation.

Other aspects, such as completion time, document types, and the number of files, are also important, but they become secondary to ensuring that the processing is taking place without critical errors. Monitoring these other factors typically follows after confirming that there are no alarming error messages that could disrupt the processing workflow.