Should HEC token in Splunk be encrypted?

I am sending logs to Splunk, during peer review I got question if we shouldn't encrypt token.Does it make sense to encrypt HEC token? It's not any secret, if I understand correctly.

<appender name="SPLUNK" class="com.splunk.logging.HttpEventCollectorLogbackAppender"><url>https://url.net:8088/</url><token>abcde-123-sv-vndsv</token><source>${source}</source><sourcetype>service</sourcetype><host>${hostname}</host><messageFormat>text</messageFormat><layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout"><pattern>%msg </pattern></layout></appender>