diff --git a/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml b/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
index e1a45e74d8..8d2cf4b466 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
+++ b/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ kafka:
     servers: "TB_KAFKA_SERVERS"
   replication_factor: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_REPLICATION_FACTOR"
   acks: "TB_KAFKA_ACKS" # -1 = all; 0 = no acknowledgments; 1 = only waits for the leader to acknowledge
+  requestTimeout: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS"
   topic_properties: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_JE_TOPIC_PROPERTIES"
   use_confluent_cloud: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_USE_CONFLUENT_CLOUD"
   client_id: "KAFKA_CLIENT_ID" #inject pod name to easy identify the client using /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh
diff --git a/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml b/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
index 8983b68368..84e927378a 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
+++ b/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ kafka:
     # Kafka Bootstrap Servers
     servers: "localhost:9092"
   replication_factor: "1"
+  acks: "1" # -1 = all; 0 = no acknowledgments; 1 = only waits for the leader to acknowledge
+  requestTimeout: "30000" # The default value in kafkajs is: 30000
   topic_properties: "retention.ms:604800000;segment.bytes:26214400;retention.bytes:104857600;partitions:100;min.insync.replicas:1"
   use_confluent_cloud: false
   client_id: "kafkajs" #inject pod name to easy identify the client using /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh
diff --git a/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.js b/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.js
index deee3b95b9..fb56630471 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.js
+++ b/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.js
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ const config = require('config'),
     JsInvokeMessageProcessor = require('../api/jsInvokeMessageProcessor'),
     logger = require('../config/logger')._logger('kafkaTemplate'),
     KafkaJsWinstonLogCreator = require('../config/logger').KafkaJsWinstonLogCreator;
-const replicationFactor = config.get('kafka.replication_factor');
+const replicationFactor = Number(config.get('kafka.replication_factor'));
 const topicProperties = config.get('kafka.topic_properties');
 const kafkaClientId = config.get('kafka.client_id');
-const acks = config.get('kafka.acks');
+const acks = Number(config.get('kafka.acks'));
+const requestTimeout = Number(config.get('kafka.requestTimeout'));
 
 let kafkaClient;
 let kafkaAdmin;
@@ -72,6 +73,8 @@ function KafkaProducer() {
             logger.warn('KAFKA_CLIENT_ID is undefined. Consider to define the env variable KAFKA_CLIENT_ID');
         }
 
+        kafkaConfig['requestTimeout'] = requestTimeout;
+
         if (useConfluent) {
             kafkaConfig['sasl'] = {
                 mechanism: config.get('kafka.confluent.sasl.mechanism'),
@@ -117,6 +120,7 @@ function KafkaProducer() {
 
         logger.info('Started ThingsBoard JavaScript Executor Microservice.');
         await consumer.run({
+            //partitionsConsumedConcurrently: 1, // Default: 1
             eachMessage: async ({topic, partition, message}) => {
                 let headers = message.headers;
                 let key = message.key;