Kafka Source in combination with Kafka Sink leads to infinite loop #65
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Because Kafka Source sets some header fields - especially "topic" - this leads to unexpected behavior in combination with the Kafka Sink => The messages will be consumed and produced again into that topic until the agent will be shut down.
The Kafka Sink determines the topic to which the event should be produced to based on a header field "topic" and overwrites the configuration of the sink.
To (nearly) fix that there are multiple options: