diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-indexing/src/actors/indexing_pipeline.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-indexing/src/actors/indexing_pipeline.rs
index bc4e56564d0..8010a3b0cb9 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-indexing/src/actors/indexing_pipeline.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-indexing/src/actors/indexing_pipeline.rs
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use quickwit_actors::{
-    Actor, ActorContext, ActorExitStatus, ActorHandle, ActorState, Handler, Health, Mailbox,
-    QueueCapacity, Supervisable,
+    Actor, ActorContext, ActorExitStatus, ActorHandle, Handler, Health, Mailbox, QueueCapacity,
+    Supervisable,
 };
 use quickwit_common::temp_dir::TempDirectory;
 use quickwit_common::KillSwitch;
@@ -454,10 +454,6 @@ impl Handler<Observe> for IndexingPipeline {
                 )
                 .set_generation(self.statistics.generation)
                 .set_num_spawn_attempts(self.statistics.num_spawn_attempts);
-            if handles.publisher.state() == ActorState::Success {
-                // The publisher has exited successfully. We can exit.
-                return Err(ActorExitStatus::Success);
-            }
         }
         ctx.schedule_self_msg(OBSERVE_INTERVAL, Observe).await;
         Ok(())