"panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" observed in indexer logs

2023-12-11T04:52:53.597-05:00 [Error] Rebalancer::initRebalAsync All Indexers Not Active. Waiting...

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0xd73398]

goroutine 106 [running]:

github.com/couchbase/indexing/secondary/manager.(*LifecycleMgr).broadcastStats(0x400366ec60)

        /home/couchbase/jenkins/workspace/couchbase-server-unix/goproj/src/github.com/couchbase/indexing/secondary/manager/lifecycle.go:3016 +0x198

created by github.com/couchbase/indexing/secondary/manager.(*LifecycleMgr).Run in goroutine 1

        /home/couchbase/jenkins/workspace/couchbase-server-unix/goproj/src/github.com/couchbase/indexing/secondary/manager/lifecycle.go:271 +0xec

2023-12-11T04:52:54.039-05:00 [Info] Indexer started with command line: [/opt/couchbase/bin/indexer -adminPort=9100 -scanPort=9101 -httpPort=9102 -streamInitPort=9103 -streamCatchupPort=9104 -streamMaintPort=9105 --httpsPort=19102 --certFile=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/certs/chain.pem --keyFile=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/certs/pkey.pem --caFile=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/certs/ca.pem --clientCertFile=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/certs/client_chain.pem --clientKeyFile=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/certs/client_pkey.pem -ipv4=required -ipv6=optional -cluster=127.0.0.1:8091 -storageDir=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/data/@2i -diagDir=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/crash -logDir=/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/logs -nodeUUID=fcefabadd91802db1c576d5e68845825 -isEnterprise=true --deploymentModel=default]