IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 does not stop on breakpoints

Well... for some reason, creating a Gradle run/debug config would make it connect to the wrong port (something random over 50000) while the application was running on 8080.

Anyway, long story short, creating an Application run/debug config solved the issue and everything works fine now.


Confirm. Problem was that I try to debug using maven run configuration. Switching to Application configuration type helps. I've spend half of a day on it (


I have faced this problem.

  1. Invalidate caches and restart
  2. I was using Spring Boot rest api project in intellij so all debug breakponts were getting passed/ignored. But the programm started debug process whenI hit Api using postman