Hi, Wanted to know if multiple kafka sources are supported in a data pipeline within flink.
I am looking at a scenario where data transformation and enrichment needs to be done when a message from both the sources is received based on a common identifier. I coded the logic and it looks to be working however I see a warning trace as below, which makes me believe perhaps it's not designed to be supported, I understand its just JMX registration which has failed and does not have any effect on the actual execution of business logic. 10:22:54,876 WARN org.apache.kafka.common.utils.AppInfoParser [] - Error registering AppInfo mbean javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException: kafka.consumer:type=app-info,id=xyz-processing642706448-5 at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.Repository.addMBean(Repository.java:436) ~[?:?] at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerWithRepository(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1855) ~[?:?] at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerDynamicMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:955) ~[?:?] at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerObject(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:890) ~[?:?] at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:320) ~[?:?] at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.registerMBean(JmxMBeanServer.java:522) ~[?:?] at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.AppInfoParser.registerAppInfo(AppInfoParser.java:64) ~[kafka-clients-3.2.3.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:816) ~[kafka-clients-3.2.3.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:666) ~[kafka-clients-3.2.3.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:647) ~[kafka-clients-3.2.3.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:627) ~[kafka-clients-3.2.3.jar:?] at org.apache.flink.connector.kafka.source.reader.KafkaPartitionSplitReader.<init>(KafkaPartitionSplitReader.java:88) ~[flink-connector-kafka-1.17.1.jar:1.17.1] at org.apache.flink.connector.kafka.source.KafkaSource.lambda$createReader$1(KafkaSource.java:160) ~[flink-connector-kafka-1.17.1.jar:1.17.1] at org.apache.flink.connector.base.source.reader.fetcher.SplitFetcherManager.createSplitFetcher(SplitFetcherManager.java:196) ~[flink-connector-base-1.17.1.jar:1.17.1] at org.apache.flink.connector.base.source.reader.fetcher.SingleThreadFetcherManager.addSplits(SingleThreadFetcherManager.java:107) ~[flink-connector-base-1.17.1.jar:1.17.1] I looked at the implementation as well and found not enough attributes were used to make the mbean id unique. Please let me know if this is a bug, I can raise a JIRA and perhaps even contribute towards its fix. Regards, -Yogesh