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 Only **searcher** pods establish the reverse connection. Indexers, the control plane, the metastore, and the janitor do not initiate any connection to Datadog.
 
+<div class="alert alert-warning">Keep at least one searcher pod running when using the reverse connection. If all searcher pods are unavailable or scaled to <code>0</code>, Datadog cannot route queries or index management requests through the reverse connection until a searcher pod starts and reconnects.</div>
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 ## Public ingress (optional)
 
 It is also possible to configure BYOC Logs to deploy a public ingress so Datadog can establish the connection in the other direction.