Spring actuator/busrefresh works fine, but trying to use the underlying beans doesn't

Question

I've been quite through a lot of hurdles using spring-cloud-bus in this past month, mainly following the docs here.

I finally managed to make it work, but I would like to be able to trigger the bus refresh directly through org.springframework.cloud.bus.endpoint.RefreshBusEndpoint#busRefresh() without having to make a POST request. This seems to be doing everything ok up to a certain point.

Where I see it differs from the actuator endpoint call is in org.springframework.cloud.bus.event.RefreshListener where the log message "Received remote refresh request." does not get logged.

I'm setting all spring properties as described in the docs above (I'm using kafka).