My team was facing an issue with their microservice not recovering after a Kafka outage, which we only observed once and we couldn't reproduce, and didnt unders

My team was facing an issue with their microservice not recovering after a Kafka outage, which we only observed once and we couldn't reproduce, and didnt understand why not. Googling the symptoms did not yield anything. ChatGPT gave us a theory which happened to be correct, which was that the outage needed to be long enough for the kerberos ticket needed to expire. I estimate without this answer from chatgpt we would have wasted at least a day of our own or other people's time in investigation, but it was solved in minutes.