diff --git a/internal/kube/kube.go b/internal/kube/kube.go
index 0b2b9930d..1fc7fe990 100644
--- a/internal/kube/kube.go
+++ b/internal/kube/kube.go
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"
 )
 
+const (
+	clientQPS   = 50
+	clientBurst = 100
+)
+
 // K8sEnvRequest represents the PUT request body to be sent to kosli from k8s
 type K8sEnvRequest struct {
 	Artifacts []*PodData `json:"artifacts"`
@@ -86,8 +91,8 @@ func NewK8sClientSet(kubeconfigPath string) (*K8SConnection, error) {
 
 	// set the QPS and burst for the config to control the rate of requests to the API server
 	//  defaults are 5 QPS and 10 burst which is too low for large clusters
-	config.QPS = 50
-	config.Burst = 100
+	config.QPS = clientQPS
+	config.Burst = clientBurst
 
 	clientset, err := kubernetes.NewForConfig(config)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -127,10 +132,15 @@ func (clientset *K8SConnection) GetPodsData(filter *filters.ResourceFilterOption
 		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 		defer cancel() // Make sure it's called to release resources even if no errors
 
+		// semaphore to limit the number of concurrent requests to the API server
+		sem := make(chan struct{}, (clientBurst/2)-1) // max concurrent requests: slightly lower than client's QPS to avoid throttling
+
 		for _, ns := range filteredNamespaces {
 			wg.Add(1)
 			go func(ns string) {
 				defer wg.Done()
+				sem <- struct{}{}        // acquire the semaphore
+				defer func() { <-sem }() // release the semaphore
 				// Check if any error occurred in any other gorouties:
 				select {
 				case <-ctx.Done():
diff --git a/internal/kube/kube_test.go b/internal/kube/kube_test.go
index 2bfa24520..ec5140d54 100644
--- a/internal/kube/kube_test.go
+++ b/internal/kube/kube_test.go
@@ -192,6 +192,19 @@ func (suite *KubeTestSuite) TestGetPodsData() {
 	}
 }
 
+func (suite *KubeTestSuite) TestGetPodsDataWithThrottling() {
+	// create a large number of pods
+	for i := 0; i < 200; i++ {
+		suite.createNamespace(fmt.Sprintf("ns-%d", i))
+	}
+	// Get pods data with timeout check
+	startTime := time.Now()
+	_, err := suite.clientset.GetPodsData(&filters.ResourceFilterOptions{IncludeNamesRegex: []string{"^ns-.*"}}, logger.NewStandardLogger())
+	duration := time.Since(startTime)
+	require.NoErrorf(suite.Suite.T(), err, "error getting pods data for test GetPodsDataWithThrottling")
+	require.LessOrEqual(suite.Suite.T(), duration, 5*time.Second, "GetPodsData should complete within 5 seconds, but took %v", duration)
+}
+
 func (suite *KubeTestSuite) TestFilterNamespaces() {
 	type args struct {
 		nsList []corev1.Namespace