Apache Kafka 3.7 Process Hung — Not Responding to Health Checks on SUSE Enterprise 15 SP5
Apache Kafka 3.7 process is alive but completely unresponsive. Health checks timing out. Thread/connection pool exhausted. Requires restart.
Pattern
TIMEOUT
Severity
HIGH
Confidence
60%
Remediation
Auto-Heal
Test Results
Metric
Expected
Actual
Result
Pattern Recognition
TIMEOUT
TIMEOUT
Severity Assessment
HIGH
HIGH
Incident Correlation
N/A
None
Cascade Escalation
N/A
No
Remediation
—
Auto-Heal — Corax resolves autonomously
Scenario Conditions
SUSE Enterprise 15 SP5. Apache Kafka 3.7 PID 13724 running but not responding. All worker threads blocked. Health endpoint timing out. Last successful response 15 minutes ago.
Injected Error Messages (1)
Apache Kafka 3.7 hung on SUSE Enterprise 15 SP5 — process alive (PID 13724) but timeout on all requests, ETIMEDOUT after 30s, all worker threads blocked, last response 15 minutes ago
Neural Engine Root Cause Analysis
Request timed out — service may be under heavy load, experiencing network issues, or behind a slow upstream.
Remediation Plan
Check server resource utilization (CPU/memory/disk). Investigate network path. Consider scaling if load-related.