Which of the following items might be the cause for this issue?

A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by another department.

Which of the following items might be the cause for this issue?
A . The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.
B . The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.
C . The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders.
D . The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version than the rest.

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Answer: C