A few examples for implementing HealthIndicator needs a KafkaTemplate. I don't actually manually create a KafkaTemplate but the HealthIndicator requires one. Is there a way to automatically grab the created KafkaTemplate (that uses the application.yml configurations)? This is versus manually creating duplicated configurations that already exist in the application.yml in a newly created consumerFactory.
See this answer.
(S)he wanted to get access to the template's ProducerFactory but you can use the same technique to just get a reference to the template.
That said, the binder comes with its own health indicator.