diff --git a/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl b/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
index b871acefcf..3acfc6e252 100755
--- a/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
+++ b/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ pod2usage(0) if $help;
 
 $batch_size //= 10;
 
-die "Not using Elasticsearch" unless C4::Context->preference('SearchEngine') eq 'Elasticsearch';
+warn "Not using Elasticsearch" unless C4::Context->preference('SearchEngine') eq 'Elasticsearch';
 
 my $logger = Koha::Logger->get({ interface =>  'worker' });