diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator.ts
index 339469ff1d..d177a7d4a8 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator
           res = await processor.preProcessEntity(
             res,
             context.location,
-            context.collector.onEmit,
+            context.collector.forProcessor(processor),
             context.originLocation,
             context.cache.forProcessor(processor),
           );
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator
 
     for (const maybeRelativeTarget of targets) {
       if (type === 'file' && maybeRelativeTarget.endsWith(path.sep)) {
-        context.collector.onEmit(
+        context.collector.generic()(
           processingResult.inputError(
             context.location,
             `LocationEntityProcessor cannot handle ${type} type location with target ${context.location.target} that ends with a path separator`,
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator
                 presence,
               },
               presence === 'optional',
-              context.collector.onEmit,
+              context.collector.forProcessor(processor),
               this.options.parser,
               context.cache.forProcessor(processor, target),
             );
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator
           res = await processor.postProcessEntity(
             res,
             context.location,
-            context.collector.onEmit,
+            context.collector.forProcessor(processor),
             context.cache.forProcessor(processor),
           );
         } catch (e) {
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
index 55282baa38..0ee6191284 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
 import { assertError } from '@backstage/errors';
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
 import {
+  CatalogProcessor,
   CatalogProcessorResult,
   DeferredEntity,
   EntityRelationSpec,
@@ -51,8 +52,17 @@ export class ProcessorOutputCollector {
     private readonly parentEntity: Entity,
   ) {}
 
-  get onEmit(): (i: CatalogProcessorResult) => void {
-    return i => this.receive(i);
+  generic(): (i: CatalogProcessorResult) => void {
+    return i => this.receive(this.logger, i);
+  }
+
+  forProcessor(
+    processor: CatalogProcessor,
+  ): (i: CatalogProcessorResult) => void {
+    const logger = this.logger.child({
+      processor: processor.getProcessorName(),
+    });
+    return i => this.receive(logger, i);
   }
 
   results() {
@@ -65,9 +75,9 @@ export class ProcessorOutputCollector {
     };
   }
 
-  private receive(i: CatalogProcessorResult) {
+  private receive(logger: Logger, i: CatalogProcessorResult) {
     if (this.done) {
-      this.logger.warn(
+      logger.warn(
         `Item of type "${
           i.type
         }" was emitted after processing had completed. Stack trace: ${
@@ -85,7 +95,7 @@ export class ProcessorOutputCollector {
         entity = validateEntityEnvelope(i.entity);
       } catch (e) {
         assertError(e);
-        this.logger.debug(`Envelope validation failed at ${location}, ${e}`);
+        logger.debug(`Envelope validation failed at ${location}, ${e}`);
         this.errors.push(e);
         return;
       }
@@ -95,9 +105,11 @@ export class ProcessorOutputCollector {
       // accidentally forgotten. This can lead to circular references which at
       // best is wasteful, so we try to be helpful by ignoring such emitted
       // entities.
-      if (
-        stringifyEntityRef(entity) === stringifyEntityRef(this.parentEntity)
-      ) {
+      const entityRef = stringifyEntityRef(entity);
+      if (entityRef === stringifyEntityRef(this.parentEntity)) {
+        logger.warn(
+          `Ignored emitted entity ${entityRef} whose ref was identical to the one being processed. This commonly indicates mistakenly emitting the input entity instead of returning it.`,
+        );
         return;
       }