Hi encountered the same issue on my architecture (SH cluster and IDX cluster). I resolved the problem deploying the index configuration on both search head and indexer. In distributed environment the index must be exists on search head and indexer.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that out. Not sure how much control I have over the dynamic creation of the curl commands generated though to know whether or not I can send events that need it and not for those that don't. In my case, I'm using Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S).
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The explanation for this is that there is a limit on how many results can be returned in a sub-search (right-side of a join). I believe 50k results is the limit. So try to make sure your search is as narrow as possible.
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Are you sending the JSON to HEC? if you want to do custom extraction at index time, make sure you use the HEC URL ending in /collector/raw. if you use /collector (or /collector/event) endpoint, then it is probably bypassing some customizations.
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In case anyone else lands here, it appears Cortex Data Lake now supports forwarding directly to Splunk via HTTP Event Collector (HEC). https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-data-lake/cortex-data-lake-getting-started/get-started-with-log-forwarding-app/forward-logs-to-an-https-server
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