diff --git a/extensions/debug/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugProcessor.java b/extensions/debug/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugProcessor.java
index f0cf41b54861..d2d0a56c22fd 100644
--- a/extensions/debug/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/debug/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugProcessor.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static class DebugEnabled implements BooleanSupplier {
         @Override
         public boolean getAsBoolean() {
             return (launchMode.equals(LaunchMode.DEVELOPMENT)) || (config.enabled
-                    || ConfigProvider.getConfig().getOptionalValue("camel.main.debugging", boolean.class).orElse(false));
+                    || ConfigProvider.getConfig().getOptionalValue("camel.debug.enabled", boolean.class).orElse(false));
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/extensions/debug/deployment/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugEnabledFromCamelMainTest.java b/extensions/debug/deployment/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugEnabledFromCamelMainTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a1fe6a039ed6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/debug/deployment/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/quarkus/component/debug/deployment/DebugEnabledFromCamelMainTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.quarkus.component.debug.deployment;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import io.quarkus.test.QuarkusUnitTest;
+import io.restassured.RestAssured;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.ShrinkWrap;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.Asset;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.StringAsset;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.JavaArchive;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+
+public class DebugEnabledFromCamelMainTest {
+
+    @RegisterExtension
+    static final QuarkusUnitTest CONFIG = new QuarkusUnitTest()
+            .setArchiveProducer(() -> ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class)
+                    .addClass(DebugResource.class)
+                    .addAsResource(applicationProperties(), "application.properties"));
+
+    @Test
+    public void camelDebuggingEnabled() throws IOException {
+        RestAssured.get("/debug/enabled")
+                .then()
+                .body(is("true"))
+                .statusCode(200);
+
+        // TODO: This needs Camel 4.7 where camel-main has the capability to configure the JMX Connector
+        // https://github.com/apache/camel-quarkus/issues/6083
+        //try (Socket socket = new Socket("localhost", 1099)) {
+        //    Assertions.assertTrue(socket.isConnected());
+        //}
+    }
+
+    public static final Asset applicationProperties() {
+        Writer writer = new StringWriter();
+
+        Properties props = new Properties();
+        props.setProperty("camel.debug.enabled", "true");
+
+        try {
+            props.store(writer, "");
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+
+        return new StringAsset(writer.toString());
+    }
+}