Description of problem:

The search-api is receiving ~80 requests per minute from the console-mce-console pods. This is putting too much load and increasing resource usage on our api and postgres components.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.12.0

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Check the following metric from Observe/Metrics

rate(search_api_request_duration_count[2m])*60

or https://<your-ocp-cluster>//monitoring/query-browser?query0=rate%28search_api_request_duration_count%5B2m%5D%29*60

Actual results:

Expected results:

Additional info:

Slack thread: https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C02684L8JMV/p1732153344815709