diff --git a/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml b/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
index a6ff458c6c..53eb24731d 100644
--- a/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
@@ -217,6 +217,11 @@
             <artifactId>datasketches-java</artifactId>
             <version>${datasketches-java.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
+            <optional>true</optional>
+        </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>