# Kafka Health Check > **Note.** _forked from [deviceinsight/kafka-health-check](https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafka-health-check) due to long period of inactivity_ This library provides a kafka health check for spring boot actuator. ## Usage Add the following dependency to your `pom.xml` ```xml me.bvn13.kafka.health kafka-health-check 1.5.5 ``` In the same maven module you can configure the topic, poll timeouts and the reception timeouts in the `application.yaml` An example for an `application.yaml` is: ```yaml kafka: health: topic: health-checks sendReceiveTimeout: 2.5s pollTimeout: 200ms ``` The values shown are the defaults. IMPORTANT: Make sure the configured health check topic exists! ```java @Bean @ConfigurationProperties("kafka.health") public KafkaHealthProperties kafkaHealthProperties() { return new KafkaHealthProperties(); } ``` ```java @Bean public KafkaConsumingHealthIndicator kafkaConsumingHealthIndicator(KafkaHealthProperties kafkaProperties, KafkaProperties processingProperties) { return new KafkaConsumingHealthIndicator(kafkaHealthProperties, processingProperties.buildConsumerProperties(), processingProperties.buildProducerProperties()); } ``` Now if you call the actuator endpoint `actuator/health` you should see the following output: ```json { "status" : "UP", "details" : { "kafkaConsuming" : { "status" : "UP" } } } ``` ## Configuration | Property | Default | Description | |---------------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | kafka.health.enabled | false | Enabling kafka health check | | kafka.health.topic | `health-checks` | Topic to subscribe to | | kafka.health.sendReceiveTimeout | 2.5s | The maximum time, given as [Duration](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.1.9.RELEASE/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html#boot-features-external-config-conversion-duration), to wait for sending and receiving the message.| | kafka.health.pollTimeout | 200ms | The time, given as [Duration](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.1.9.RELEASE/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html#boot-features-external-config-conversion-duration), spent fetching the data from the topic | | kafka.health.cache.maximumSize | 200 | Specifies the maximum number of entries the cache may contain. | ## Releasing Creating a new release involves the following steps: 1. `./mvnw gitflow:release-start gitflow:release-finish` 2. `git push origin master` 3. `git push --tags` 4. `git push origin develop` In order to deploy the release to Maven Central, you need to create an account at https://issues.sonatype.org and configure your account in `~/.m2/settings.xml`: ```xml ossrh your-jira-id your-jira-pwd ``` The account also needs access to the project on Maven Central. This can be requested by another project member. Then check out the release you want to deploy (`git checkout x.y.z`) and run `./mvnw deploy -Prelease`.