diff --git a/artemis-server/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/util/ThreadLeakCheckRule.java b/artemis-server/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/util/ThreadLeakCheckRule.java
index e3ef4c7ff7..8ee46c3e9b 100644
--- a/artemis-server/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/util/ThreadLeakCheckRule.java
+++ b/artemis-server/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/util/ThreadLeakCheckRule.java
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ public class ThreadLeakCheckRule extends ExternalResource {
          //another netty thread
          return true;
       }
+      else if (threadName.contains("hawtdispatch")) {
+         // Static workers used by MQTT client.
+         return true;
+      }
       else {
          for (StackTraceElement element : thread.getStackTrace()) {
             if (element.getClassName().contains("org.jboss.byteman.agent.TransformListener")) {