To begin with, I would like to reiterate that Hystrix is enabled by default for the application when using a Feign library, but only for the older versions of Spring Cloud. According to the documentation for the newest version of Spring Cloud, we should set the feign.hystrix.enabled property to true, which forces Feign to wrap all methods with a circuit breaker.
Prior to the Spring Cloud Dalston release, if Hystrix was on the classpath, Feign would have wrapped all methods in a circuit breaker by default. This default behavior was changed in Spring Cloud Dalston in favor of an opt-in approach.
When using Hystrix together with a Feign client, the simplest way to provide configuration properties previously set with ...
