Client-Side Throttling

Symptom: Kyverno pods emit logs stating Waited for <n>s due to client-side throttling; the creation of mutated resources may be delayed.

Solution: Try increasing clientRateLimitBurst and clientRateLimitQPS (documented here). If that doesn’t resolve the problem, you can experiment with slowly increasing these values. Just bear in mind that higher values place more pressure on the Kubernetes API (the client-side throttling was implemented for a reason), which could result in cluster-wide latency, so proceed with caution.