# What this PR does
If the same heartbeat is requested at a high rate it can create lock
contention when updating the timestamp in the DB. Moving to always run
update in task should free up the connection on the API server faster,
although the task might still see some lock wait time.
## Which issue(s) this PR fixes
## Checklist
- [ ] Unit, integration, and e2e (if applicable) tests updated
- [x] Documentation added (or `pr:no public docs` PR label added if not
required)
- [x] `CHANGELOG.md` updated (or `pr:no changelog` PR label added if not
required)
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