this issue is there in core of Spring Framework (https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-15262) but this tests shows how to apply a workaround to get ridd of that problem until we bump up version of SF. related to https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth/issues/520 and https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth/issues/523 SO - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42277170/messagedeliveryexception-thrown-when-using-amqp-backed-channel-with-brixton-sr7 fixes #520