Hi mprreddy51,
I guess, this is due to multiple time zone issues.
Let me split up your queries.
First to make latency as zero (in an ideal scenario), the indexers timezone and the inputs props.conf timezone should be same. In your case, it seems input timezone is UTC-8:00 where as the Indexer is UTC-11:00.
But in few cases, there would be latency due to various parameters such as network delay between Indexer and Forwarder, Forwarder data rate etc.
Now to the second query, to make the _raw time as _time .
Timezone value TZ in props.conf should be set to UTC and TIME_FORMAT attribute should be configured to take the _time from input data.
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