Just add the new monitor and sourcetype in inputs.conf, it will starting showing the data.
If you want specific processing add configurations in props.conf for the sourcetype..
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Try using the rest endpoint to create indexes, it won't ask you for a restart. But you need to run the command on all your indexers -
curl -k -u : https://indexer:port/servicesNS///data/indexes -d name=
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