diff --git a/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.test.yaml b/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.test.yaml
index 1df3a5de5..3ec5b0fc9 100644
--- a/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.test.yaml
+++ b/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.test.yaml
@@ -117,3 +117,100 @@ tests:
               description: "Less than 50% of lifecycle object processors for expiration are up and healthy"
               summary: "Degraded lifecycle object processor"
 
+  - name: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+    interval: 1m
+    input_series:
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_slowTasks_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-object-processor-headless"}
+        values: 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_slowTasks_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-bucket-processor-headless"}
+        values: 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
+    alert_rule_test:
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 1m
+        exp_alerts: []
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 3m
+        exp_alerts: []
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 5m
+        exp_alerts: []
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 6m
+        exp_alerts: []
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 7m
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              severity: warning
+              job: artesca-data-backbeat-bucket-processor-headless
+            exp_annotations:
+              description: >-
+                Some tasks are taking too long to process in artesca-data-backbeat-bucket-processor-headless. This is not expected, and
+                may be a sign that other components are not behaving nominally or may need to be scaled.
+
+                If this alert lasts, it may mean the task is blocked, and that the consumer should be
+                restarted.
+              summary: Some Kafka messages are taking too long to process
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 8m
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              severity: warning
+              job: artesca-data-backbeat-bucket-processor-headless
+            exp_annotations:
+              description: >-
+                Some tasks are taking too long to process in artesca-data-backbeat-bucket-processor-headless. This is not expected, and
+                may be a sign that other components are not behaving nominally or may need to be scaled.
+
+                If this alert lasts, it may mean the task is blocked, and that the consumer should be
+                restarted.
+              summary: Some Kafka messages are taking too long to process
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+        eval_time: 9m
+        exp_alerts: []
+
+  - name: KafkaConsumerRebalance
+    interval: 1m
+    input_series:
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_rebalance_total_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-object-processor-headless",status="drained",pod="foo"}
+        values: 1 2 _ _ stale
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_rebalance_total_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-object-processor-headless",status="timeout",pod="foo"}
+        values: _ 1 _ _ stale
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_rebalance_total_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-object-processor-headless",status="drained",pod="bar"}
+        values: _ _ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+      - series: s3_zenko_queue_rebalance_total_count{namespace="zenko",job="artesca-data-backbeat-object-processor-headless",status="timeout",pod="bar"}
+        values: _ _ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+    alert_rule_test:
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeout
+        eval_time: 0m
+        exp_alerts: []
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeout
+        eval_time: 1m
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              severity: critical
+              pod: "foo"
+            exp_annotations:
+              summary: Kafka consumer has stopped consuming messages
+              description: Kafka rebalance has timed out for pod `foo`, which indicates that the consumer is not working anymore, and should be restarted.
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeout
+        eval_time: 2m
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              severity: critical
+              pod: "foo"
+            exp_annotations:
+              summary: Kafka consumer has stopped consuming messages
+              description: Kafka rebalance has timed out for pod `foo`, which indicates that the consumer is not working anymore, and should be restarted.
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeout
+        eval_time: 3m
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              severity: critical
+              pod: "foo"
+            exp_annotations:
+              summary: Kafka consumer has stopped consuming messages
+              description: Kafka rebalance has timed out for pod `foo`, which indicates that the consumer is not working anymore, and should be restarted.
+      - alertname: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeouts
+        eval_time: 4m
+        exp_alerts: []
diff --git a/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.yaml b/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.yaml
index 38254b645..3558a2460 100644
--- a/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.yaml
+++ b/monitoring/lifecycle/alerts.yaml
@@ -181,3 +181,28 @@ groups:
       description: "More than 5% of Kafka messages failed to publish to the lifecycle object topic"
       summary: "High rate of failed messages to the object topic"
 
+  - alert: KafkaConsumerSlowTask
+    Expr: |
+      sum(s3_zenko_queue_slowTasks_count{namespace="${namespace}"}) by(job) > 0
+    For: "5m"
+    Labels:
+     severity: warning
+    Annotations:
+      description: >-
+        Some tasks are taking too long to process in {{ $labels.job }}. This is not expected, and
+        may be a sign that other components are not behaving nominally or may need to be scaled.
+
+        If this alert lasts, it may mean the task is blocked, and that the consumer should be
+        restarted.
+      summary: "Some Kafka messages are taking too long to process"
+
+  - alert: KafkaConsumerRebalanceTimeout
+    Expr: |
+      sum(s3_zenko_queue_rebalance_total_count{namespace="${namespace}", status="timeout"}) by(pod) > 0
+    Labels:
+     severity: critical
+    Annotations:
+      description: >-
+        Kafka rebalance has timed out for pod `{{ $labels.pod }}`, which indicates that the consumer
+        is not working anymore, and should be restarted.
+      summary: "Kafka consumer has stopped consuming messages"