diff --git a/taskbroker/config.yml b/taskbroker/config.yml
index 7845efb1f92..5dd7afc4b61 100644
--- a/taskbroker/config.yml
+++ b/taskbroker/config.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 # See https://github.com/getsentry/taskbroker/pull/667 for the config format.
+# The feature-complete stack can temporarily starve Kafka during startup.
+# Self-hosted runs one taskbroker, so fast consumer failover provides little benefit.
+kafka_session_timeout_ms: 60000
+
 kafka_deadletter_topic: taskworker-dlq
 kafka_retry_topic: taskworker