IllegalState: Web Container not started yet in Kafka Producer

It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Java Enterprise and we’ve recently run into a problem where our container randomly throws this error after a restart using payara-enterprise 5.45.0:

Uncaught error in kafka producer I/O thread: ",“StackTrace”:“java.lang.IllegalStateException: This web container has not yet been started
at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1673)
at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1630)
at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.close(Selector.java:886)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.handleTimedOutRequests(NetworkClient.java:796)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:574)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.runOnce(Sender.java:328)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:243)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)\n”},“ThreadID”:“66”,“ThreadName”:“kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1”}

Sadly I haven’t found much online about how to debug an issue like this, so I thought I’d reach out here, any tips on where to look or what to check are appreciated!