diff --git a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/session-manager.ts b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/session-manager.ts
index 50d8c587b772c..136a5db183c27 100644
--- a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/session-manager.ts
+++ b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/session-manager.ts
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ export class SessionManager {
 
     public async add(message: IncomingRecordingMessage): Promise<void> {
         if (this.destroying) {
+            if (this.debug) {
+                status.warn('🚽', '[session-manager] add called but we are in a destroying state', {
+                    ...this.logContext(),
+                })
+            }
             return
         }
 
@@ -200,9 +205,18 @@ export class SessionManager {
         }
 
         // NOTE: This is uncompressed size estimate but that's okay as we currently want to over-flush to see if we can shake out a bug
-        if (this.buffer.sizeEstimate >= this.serverConfig.SESSION_RECORDING_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE_KB * 1024) {
+        const shouldAttemptFlush =
+            this.buffer.sizeEstimate >= this.serverConfig.SESSION_RECORDING_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE_KB * 1024
+        if (shouldAttemptFlush) {
             await this.flush('buffer_size')
         }
+        if (this.debug) {
+            status.info('🚽', `[session-manager] added message`, {
+                ...this.logContext(),
+                metadata: message.metadata,
+                shouldAttemptFlush,
+            })
+        }
     }
 
     public get isEmpty(): boolean {
diff --git a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.ts b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.ts
index 1d0c928b81b0c..c8961d1e1696b 100644
--- a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.ts
+++ b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.ts
@@ -263,10 +263,26 @@ export class SessionRecordingIngester {
         const overflowKey = `${team_id}:${session_id}`
 
         const { partition, highOffset } = event.metadata
-        if (this.debugPartition === partition) {
+        const isDebug = this.debugPartition === partition
+        if (isDebug) {
             status.info('🔁', '[blob_ingester_consumer] - [PARTITION DEBUG] - consuming event', { ...event.metadata })
         }
 
+        function dropEvent(dropCause: string) {
+            eventDroppedCounter
+                .labels({
+                    event_type: 'session_recordings_blob_ingestion',
+                    drop_cause: dropCause,
+                })
+                .inc()
+            if (isDebug) {
+                status.info('🔁', '[blob_ingester_consumer] - [PARTITION DEBUG] - dropping event', {
+                    ...event.metadata,
+                    dropCause,
+                })
+            }
+        }
+
         // Check that we are not below the high-water mark for this partition (another consumer may have flushed further than us when revoking)
         if (
             await this.persistentHighWaterMarker.isBelowHighWaterMark(
@@ -275,24 +291,12 @@ export class SessionRecordingIngester {
                 highOffset
             )
         ) {
-            eventDroppedCounter
-                .labels({
-                    event_type: 'session_recordings_blob_ingestion',
-                    drop_cause: 'high_water_mark_partition',
-                })
-                .inc()
-
+            dropEvent('high_water_mark_partition')
             return
         }
 
         if (await this.sessionHighWaterMarker.isBelowHighWaterMark(event.metadata, session_id, highOffset)) {
-            eventDroppedCounter
-                .labels({
-                    event_type: 'session_recordings_blob_ingestion',
-                    drop_cause: 'high_water_mark',
-                })
-                .inc()
-
+            dropEvent('high_water_mark')
             return
         }