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title: "Comment by Abhinav Sharma on \"Stop Pinging Kafka - A Zero-Cost Health Check Pattern (and What Can Go Wrong)\" | Hashnode"
description: "The restart-storm angle is the counterintuitive part, a health check that kills and restarts consumers can trigger the very rebalances that then look like downt"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-pinging-kafka-a-zero-cost-health-check-pattern-and-what-can-go-wrong/6ad65e65cb89e7ce1f6ae2c7)

Comment [Stop Pinging Kafka - A Zero-Cost Health Check Pattern (and What Can Go Wrong)](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-pinging-kafka-a-zero-cost-health-check-pattern-and-what-can-go-wrong/6ad65e65cb89e7ce1f6ae2c7)

[Abhinav Sharma](https://hashnode.com/@abhinavs1920)

[Oct 20](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-pinging-kafka-a-zero-cost-health-check-pattern-and-what-can-go-wrong/6ad65e65cb89e7ce1f6ae2c7/comment/6ad7e5af9a5ea76ea2a5f709)

The restart-storm angle is the counterintuitive part, a health check that kills and restarts consumers can trigger the very rebalances that then look like downtime. Piggybacking on the statistics callback instead of publishing test messages also keeps the topics clean.