Just wanted to add for awareness that there are other actions that are not considered local changes. From the NiFi User Guide (https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/user-guide.html#managing_local_changes): disabling/enabling processors and controller services stopping/starting processors modifying sensitive property values modifying remote process group URLs updating a processor that was referencing a non-existent controller service to reference an externally available controller service modifying variables ... View more