diff --git a/internal/concierge/server/server.go b/internal/concierge/server/server.go
index bf8e0586..d01b7233 100644
--- a/internal/concierge/server/server.go
+++ b/internal/concierge/server/server.go
@@ -192,6 +192,13 @@ func getAggregatedAPIServerConfig(
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// temporarily disable max inflight checks for mutating requests until we
+	// pick up a fix for https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/95300
+	// we do not need to set MaxRequestsInFlight to 0 because we are constantly
+	// hammered by the kubelet for /healthz and the api server for discovery
+	// which keeps the non-mutating request watermark histograms up to date
+	serverConfig.Config.MaxMutatingRequestsInFlight = 0
+
 	apiServerConfig := &apiserver.Config{
 		GenericConfig: serverConfig,
 		ExtraConfig: apiserver.ExtraConfig{