Spring Cloud Stream Rabbit Source Losing connection to RabbitMQ - rabbitmq

Question

I have a question regarding spring cloud stream and RabbitMQ. I don't know why, but I keep having this issue come up every so often where we lose connectivity to rabbit for a few seconds and reestablish a connection.
Here is the Stack Trace:
[container-1] WARN org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer - Consumer raised exception, processing can restart if the connection factory supports it
com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: connection error
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.startShutdown(AMQConnection.java:743)
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.shutdown(AMQConnection.java:733)
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:573)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedByte(DataInputStream.java:290)
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.Frame.readFrom(Frame.java:95)
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.SocketFrameHandler.readFrame(SocketFrameHandler.java:139)
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:542)
... 1 more
Here are the application properties we are using:
spring.rabbitmq.host=rabbit_host
spring.rabbitmq.port=rabbit_port
spring.rabbitmq.username=rabbit_user
spring.rabbitmq.password=rabbit_password
spring.rabbitmq.ssl.enabled=true
rabbit.queues=someQueue
spring.cloud.stream.bindings.output.content-type=application/json
rabbit.enable-retry=true
spring.cloud.stream.defaultBinder=rabbit
spring.cloud.stream.bindings.input.binder=kafka
spring.cloud.stream.bindings.output.binder=rabbit
spring.rabbitmq.requested-heartbeat=60
And we are using the AggregateApplicationBuilder to orchestrate our stream together.
public static void main(String[] args) {
new AggregateApplicationBuilder(SpringApplication.run(OurApplication.class)).from(RabbitSourceConfiguration.class).from(ourTransformer.class).to(ourSink.class).run(args);
}
Normally we would be ok with having some intermittent connectivity issues if they are able to resolve themselves, but here is the major problem for us. In our production environment we actually end up losing connection permanently after some time. Here is the following stack trace for when that issue happens.
Caused by: com.rabbitmq.client.PossibleAuthenticationFailureException: Possibly caused by authentication failure
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.start(AMQConnection.java:342) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.newConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:813) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.newConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:725) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.AbstractConnectionFactory.createBareConnection(AbstractConnectionFactory.java:296) ~[spring-rabbit-1.6.1.RELEASE.jar!/:na]
... 12 common frames omitted
Caused by: com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: connection error
at com.rabbitmq.utility.ValueOrException.getValue(ValueOrException.java:67) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.utility.BlockingValueOrException.uninterruptibleGetValue(BlockingValueOrException.java:37) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQChannel$BlockingRpcContinuation.getReply(AMQChannel.java:367) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQChannel.privateRpc(AMQChannel.java:234) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQChannel.rpc(AMQChannel.java:212) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.start(AMQConnection.java:327) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
... 15 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: null
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedByte(DataInputStream.java:290) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.Frame.readFrom(Frame.java:95) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.SocketFrameHandler.readFrame(SocketFrameHandler.java:139) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:542) ~[amqp-client-3.6.3.jar!/:na]
... 1 common frames omitted
We thought this could be because the rabbit server or haproxy is dumping our connection after being idle for some time, but then I added the "requested-heartbeat", and we are still getting the issue.
Anyone have any ideas or clues as to why or what is causing this issue? Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Matt