I believe it is due to my lack of understanding on how the indexers in an indexer cluster treat locally monitored data versus data forwarded to the indexer cluster. I mistakenly thought that locally monitored logs on each indexer don't get treated the same way as logs that were forwarded to the indexer cluster. Thank you for pointing out on the infinite loop, I guess this was the issue when I tried to configure the indexer to forward locally monitored data to its own indexer cluster, which made them spew out alot of errors.  In that case it seems that I should just create an `inputs.conf` on the indexers and monitor whatever I want, as the indexers' logs would get indexed and subsequently replicated, if I'm understanding it correctly.  Thank you for your help! ... View more