diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b20d19ae2..6cd41aae7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1940,6 +1940,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "meilisearch-types",
  "nelson",
  "page_size 0.5.0",
+ "parking_lot",
  "puffin",
  "roaring",
  "serde",
diff --git a/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml b/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
index 6beea99eb..a327b4386 100644
--- a/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ time = { version = "0.3.20", features = ["serde-well-known", "formatting", "pars
 uuid = { version = "1.3.1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.27.0", features = ["full"] }
 zookeeper = "0.8.0"
+parking_lot = "0.12.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 big_s = "1.0.2"
diff --git a/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs b/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
index 45a1eb481..57f45b5c3 100644
--- a/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
+++ b/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ use std::ops::{Bound, RangeBounds};
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool;
 use std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed;
-use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::Duration;
 
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ use meilisearch_types::milli::documents::DocumentsBatchBuilder;
 use meilisearch_types::milli::update::IndexerConfig;
 use meilisearch_types::milli::{self, CboRoaringBitmapCodec, Index, RoaringBitmapCodec, BEU32};
 use meilisearch_types::tasks::{Kind, KindWithContent, Status, Task};
+use parking_lot::{MappedRwLockReadGuard, RwLock, RwLockReadGuard};
 use roaring::RoaringBitmap;
 use synchronoise::SignalEvent;
 use time::format_description::well_known::Rfc3339;
@@ -279,7 +280,11 @@ pub struct IndexSchedulerOptions {
 
 /// Structure which holds meilisearch's indexes and schedules the tasks
 /// to be performed on them.
-pub struct IndexScheduler {
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct IndexScheduler(Arc<RwLock<Option<IndexScheduler>>>);
+
+/// This is the internal structure that keeps the indexes alive.
+struct IndexSchedulerInner {
     /// The LMDB environment which the DBs are associated with.
     pub(crate) env: Env,
 
@@ -365,41 +370,6 @@ pub struct IndexScheduler {
     run_loop_iteration: Arc<RwLock<usize>>,
 }
 
-impl IndexScheduler {
-    fn private_clone(&self) -> IndexScheduler {
-        IndexScheduler {
-            env: self.env.clone(),
-            must_stop_processing: self.must_stop_processing.clone(),
-            processing_tasks: self.processing_tasks.clone(),
-            file_store: self.file_store.clone(),
-            all_tasks: self.all_tasks,
-            status: self.status,
-            kind: self.kind,
-            index_tasks: self.index_tasks,
-            canceled_by: self.canceled_by,
-            enqueued_at: self.enqueued_at,
-            started_at: self.started_at,
-            finished_at: self.finished_at,
-            index_mapper: self.index_mapper.clone(),
-            wake_up: self.wake_up.clone(),
-            autobatching_enabled: self.autobatching_enabled,
-            max_number_of_tasks: self.max_number_of_tasks,
-            snapshots_path: self.snapshots_path.clone(),
-            dumps_path: self.dumps_path.clone(),
-            auth_path: self.auth_path.clone(),
-            zookeeper: self.zookeeper.clone(),
-            version_file_path: self.version_file_path.clone(),
-            #[cfg(test)]
-            test_breakpoint_sdr: self.test_breakpoint_sdr.clone(),
-            #[cfg(test)]
-            planned_failures: self.planned_failures.clone(),
-            #[cfg(test)]
-            run_loop_iteration: self.run_loop_iteration.clone(),
-            features: self.features.clone(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl IndexScheduler {
     /// Create an index scheduler and start its run loop.
     pub fn new(
@@ -454,7 +424,7 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
         wtxn.commit()?;
 
         // allow unreachable_code to get rids of the warning in the case of a test build.
-        let this = Self {
+        let inner = IndexSchedulerInner {
             must_stop_processing: MustStopProcessing::default(),
             processing_tasks: Arc::new(RwLock::new(ProcessingTasks::new())),
             file_store,
@@ -495,7 +465,7 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
         };
 
         // initialize the directories we need to process batches.
-        if let Some(zookeeper) = &this.zookeeper {
+        if let Some(zookeeper) = &inner.zookeeper {
             match zookeeper.create(
                 "/election",
                 vec![],
@@ -517,11 +487,16 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
             }
         }
 
+        let this = IndexScheduler(Arc::new(RwLock::new(inner)));
         this.run();
-
         Ok(this)
     }
 
+    /// Returns a read lock of the `IndexScheduler` inner structure.
+    pub fn inner(&self) -> MappedRwLockReadGuard<IndexSchedulerInner> {
+        RwLockReadGuard::map(self.0.read(), |opt| opt.unwrap())
+    }
+
     /// Return `Ok(())` if the index scheduler is able to access one of its database.
     pub fn health(&self) -> Result<()> {
         let rtxn = self.env.read_txn()?;