Hi See ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-19645
We have health checks for components that have producers, mainly for the AWS components and then for camel-kafka as well. However for AWS they have been not working for a while and has been not included in the releases. To keep this behavior we could keep the health checks for producers disabled by default. This only affects camel-kafka where it would be disabled now. You can turn this on via camel.component.kafka.health-check-producer-enabled = true The health checks has most value for consumers where they assist during startup to signal when Camel is started healthy and is ready to accept incoming traffic. For producers then Camel already have error handling to retry calling a downstream service. If a producer is enabled and a downstream service for some reason is not live, then with health checks enabled, then the Camel application will be reported as DOWN, -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
