Hi t's expected that the consumer picks it up (the Kafka client supports it), but the Camel documentation incorrectly shows it as producer-only. This is a labeling bug — the fix would be changing the annotation from "producer" to "common". https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-23927
On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM Niranjan Kondru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Team, Greetings! > > I raised the Stack Overflow question below a couple of weeks ago and > would like to get some insights from the Camel team. The issue is that > a Camel Kafka consumer appears to be picking up the producer-only > metadata.max.age.ms option. Could someone please help clarify whether > this is expected behavior or a bug? > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79962826/apache-camel-kafka-consumer-using-the-producer-only-metadatamaxagems-option-t > > Thanks & Regards, > Niranjan Kondru. > -- Claus Ibsen
