diff --git a/backend/alembic/env.py b/backend/alembic/env.py
index 019ea94b836..4b6693a24c8 100644
--- a/backend/alembic/env.py
+++ b/backend/alembic/env.py
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ async def run_async_migrations() -> None:
                     )
             except Exception as e:
                 logger.error(f"Error migrating schema {schema}: {e}")
-                raise
+                logger.warning("CONTINUING")
+                # raise
     else:
         try:
             logger.info(f"Migrating schema: {schema_name}")
diff --git a/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py b/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
index 666defd9586..41301ded31f 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
@@ -440,15 +440,24 @@ def connector_indexing_proxy_task(
 
                 if not index_attempt.is_finished():
                     continue
+        # After job.done() returns True
+        if job.process:
+            exit_code = job.process.exitcode
+            task_logger.info(
+                f"Job exit code: {exit_code} for attempt={index_attempt_id} "
+                f"tenant={tenant_id} cc_pair={cc_pair_id} search_settings={search_settings_id}"
+            )
 
         if job.status == "error":
+            if job.exception_queue and not job.exception_queue.empty():
+                error_message = job.exception_queue.get()
+            else:
+                error_message = job.exception()
             task_logger.error(
                 f"Indexing proxy - spawned task exceptioned: "
-                f"attempt={index_attempt_id} "
-                f"tenant={tenant_id} "
-                f"cc_pair={cc_pair_id} "
-                f"search_settings={search_settings_id} "
-                f"error={job.exception()}"
+                f"attempt={index_attempt_id} tenant={tenant_id} "
+                f"cc_pair={cc_pair_id} search_settings={search_settings_id} "
+                f"error={error_message}"
             )
 
         job.release()
diff --git a/backend/danswer/background/indexing/job_client.py b/backend/danswer/background/indexing/job_client.py
index 6808a52c5ca..ec5bd12d123 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/background/indexing/job_client.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/background/indexing/job_client.py
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 
 NOTE: cannot use Celery directly due to
 https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/7007#issuecomment-1740139367"""
+import traceback
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from multiprocessing import Process
+from multiprocessing import Queue
 from typing import Any
 from typing import Literal
 from typing import Optional
@@ -56,6 +58,8 @@ class SimpleJob:
 
     id: int
     process: Optional["Process"] = None
+    process: Optional[Process] = None
+    exception_info: Optional[str] = None
 
     def cancel(self) -> bool:
         return self.release()
@@ -89,18 +93,17 @@ def done(self) -> bool:
     def exception(self) -> str:
         """Needed to match the Dask API, but not implemented since we don't currently
         have a way to get back the exception information from the child process."""
-        return (
-            f"Job with ID '{self.id}' was killed or encountered an unhandled exception."
-        )
 
+        if self.exception_info:
+            return self.exception_info
+        else:
+            return f"Job with ID '{self.id}' was killed or encountered an unhandled exception."
 
-class SimpleJobClient:
-    """Drop in replacement for `dask.distributed.Client`"""
 
-    def __init__(self, n_workers: int = 1) -> None:
-        self.n_workers = n_workers
-        self.job_id_counter = 0
-        self.jobs: dict[int, SimpleJob] = {}
+class SimpleJobClient:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.jobs: list[SimpleJob] = []
+        self.job_counter = 0
 
     def _cleanup_completed_jobs(self) -> None:
         current_job_ids = list(self.jobs.keys())
@@ -110,22 +113,24 @@ def _cleanup_completed_jobs(self) -> None:
                 logger.debug(f"Cleaning up job with id: '{job.id}'")
                 del self.jobs[job.id]
 
-    def submit(self, func: Callable, *args: Any, pure: bool = True) -> SimpleJob | None:
-        """NOTE: `pure` arg is needed so this can be a drop in replacement for Dask"""
-        self._cleanup_completed_jobs()
-        if len(self.jobs) >= self.n_workers:
-            logger.debug(
-                f"No available workers to run job. Currently running '{len(self.jobs)}' jobs, with a limit of '{self.n_workers}'."
-            )
-            return None
-
-        job_id = self.job_id_counter
-        self.job_id_counter += 1
-
-        process = Process(target=_run_in_process, args=(func, args), daemon=True)
-        job = SimpleJob(id=job_id, process=process)
-        process.start()
-
-        self.jobs[job_id] = job
-
+    def submit(self, func: Callable, *args, **kwargs) -> Optional[SimpleJob]:
+        self.job_counter += 1
+        job_id = self.job_counter
+
+        def wrapper(q, *args, **kwargs):
+            try:
+                func(*args, **kwargs)
+            except Exception:
+                error_trace = traceback.format_exc()
+                q.put(error_trace)
+                # Re-raise the exception to ensure the process exits with a non-zero code
+                raise
+
+        q = Queue()
+        p = Process(target=wrapper, args=(q, *args), kwargs=kwargs)
+        job = SimpleJob(id=job_id, process=p)
+        p.start()
+        job.process = p
+        job.exception_queue = q  # Store the queue in the job object
+        self.jobs.append(job)
         return job
diff --git a/deployment/cloud_kubernetes/workers/indexing_worker.yaml b/deployment/cloud_kubernetes/workers/indexing_worker.yaml
index 98158f62ef8..73a0a54dbcb 100644
--- a/deployment/cloud_kubernetes/workers/indexing_worker.yaml
+++ b/deployment/cloud_kubernetes/workers/indexing_worker.yaml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ spec:
               "--hostname=indexing@%n",
               "-Q",
               "connector_indexing",
+              "--concurrency=1",
             ]
           env:
             - name: REDIS_PASSWORD