TL;DR If your application is failing to obtain new database connection, restarting ActiveMQ broker may help. Interested? The problem with performance Few months ago we experienced a production outage. Many requests were failing with all too familiar: java.sql.SQLTransientConnectionException: HikariPool-1 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30003ms. at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.createTimeoutException(HikariPool.java:555) ~[HikariCP-2.4.7.jar:na] at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.getConnection(HikariPool.java:188) ~[HikariCP-2.4.7.jar:na] at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.getConnection(HikariPool.java:147) ~[HikariCP-2.4.7.jar:na] at com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource.getConnection(HikariDataSource.java:99) ~[HikariCP-2.4.7.jar:na] at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager.doBegin(DataSourceTransactionManager.java:211) ~[spring-jdbc-4.3.4.RELEASE.jar:4.3.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.transactio