Hi Bengt On file endpoint you can enable sendEmptyMessageWhenIdle option that sends an empty message if no files are available. This should also be possible on ftp/sftp endpoints, and could trigger your route to send a heartbeat even in the absence of a file exchange.
An other way to achieve monitoring is to let your Camel context/routes be able to tell it's health state, so that each camel integration component exposes a rest interface with health state info. We are deploying in a war file so it's easy to expose a rest interface, and for whatever monitoring solution to call http get and take action depending on the healthstate. If you are running your routes as bundles in karaf, you could possible expose the same healthstate info as MBeans, and then let Nagios query via jmx. /Preben -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Check-that-file-component-is-still-polling-tp5727333p5727363.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.