Propagate state of Kafka connection to readiness actuator indicator

Question

I have a basic spring boot service that sends messages through Kafka.

When kafka connection is down, spring boot actuator shows the status of kafka binder as DOWN and overall status as DOWN. However, Readiness and Liveness are both UP. I would like however the down status of kafka binder to be propagated to Readiness indicator.

That means, if kafka is up, I'd like localhost:8080/actuator/health/readiness to show "UP" and when kafka is down, I'd like localhost:8080/actuator/health/readiness to show "DOWN", however liveness should still remain "UP".

Is it possible to configure this behaviour?

Answer 1

The closest to the desired solution that I could find was:

management:
  endpoint:
    health:
      group:
        readiness:
          include: readinessState, binders

could not, however, limit the binders to kafka only.