[1] uses a time based threshold to mark a request thread as "stuck" above the configured threshold.
This is definitely useful, but maybe a thread is busy transferring a large request (IO). This could become a wrong conclusion for the thread to be marked as stuck. A relevant contextual example is that nginx has proxy_read_timeout [2] (although Tomcat is not by definition a proxy) The above checks if the server is transmitting any bytes over the wire (socket read timeout) to decide if a request is stuck or not. I am wondering if there's a similar way to achieve the same in Tomcat (possibly without using NIO connectors)? Thanks, Behrooz [1]: https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/TOMCAT_9_0_12/java/org/apache/catalina/valves/StuckThreadDetectionValve.java [2]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_read_timeout
