diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-control-plane/src/ingest/scaling_arbiter.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-control-plane/src/ingest/scaling_arbiter.rs
index 0bd4961f125..dd85e06692d 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-control-plane/src/ingest/scaling_arbiter.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-control-plane/src/ingest/scaling_arbiter.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,16 @@ use crate::model::{ScalingMode, ShardStats};
 pub(crate) struct ScalingArbiter {
     // Threshold in MiB/s below which we decrease the number of shards.
     scale_down_shards_threshold_mib_per_sec: f32,
+
     // Threshold in MiB/s above which we increase the number of shards.
+    // In order to make scaling up reactive, the decision is mostly taken by inspecting the short
+    // term threshold.
+    //
+    // However, this threshold is based on a very short window of time: 5s.
+    //
+    // In order to avoid having back and forth scaling up and down in response to temporary
+    // punctual spikes of a few MB, we also compute what would be the long term ingestion rate
+    // after scaling up, and double check that it is above the long term threshold.
     scale_up_shards_short_term_threshold_mib_per_sec: f32,
     scale_up_shards_long_term_threshold_mib_per_sec: f32,
 }
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/broadcast.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/broadcast.rs
index 8c4502b8270..526a8dae81a 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/broadcast.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/broadcast.rs
@@ -160,17 +160,17 @@ impl LocalShardsSnapshot {
 pub(super) struct BroadcastLocalShardsTask {
     cluster: Cluster,
     weak_state: WeakIngesterState,
-    shard_throughput_time_series: ShardThroughputTimeSeries,
+    shard_throughput_time_series_map: ShardThroughputTimeSeriesMap,
 }
 
 const SHARD_THROUGHPUT_LONG_TERM_WINDOW_LEN: usize = 12;
 
 #[derive(Default)]
-struct ShardThroughputTimeSeries {
+struct ShardThroughputTimeSeriesMap {
     shard_time_series: HashMap<(SourceUid, ShardId), ShardThroughputTimeSerie>,
 }
 
-impl ShardThroughputTimeSeries {
+impl ShardThroughputTimeSeriesMap {
     // Records a list of shard throughputs.
     //
     // A new time series is created for each new shard_ids.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ impl BroadcastLocalShardsTask {
         let mut broadcaster = Self {
             cluster,
             weak_state,
-            shard_throughput_time_series: Default::default(),
+            shard_throughput_time_series_map: Default::default(),
         };
         tokio::spawn(async move { broadcaster.run().await })
     }
@@ -311,11 +311,11 @@ impl BroadcastLocalShardsTask {
             })
             .collect();
 
-        self.shard_throughput_time_series
+        self.shard_throughput_time_series_map
             .record_shard_throughputs(ingestion_rates);
 
         let per_source_shard_infos = self
-            .shard_throughput_time_series
+            .shard_throughput_time_series_map
             .get_per_source_shard_infos();
 
         for shard_infos in per_source_shard_infos.values() {
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut task = BroadcastLocalShardsTask {
             cluster,
             weak_state,
-            shard_throughput_time_series: Default::default(),
+            shard_throughput_time_series_map: Default::default(),
         };
         let previous_snapshot = task.snapshot_local_shards().await.unwrap();
         assert!(previous_snapshot.per_source_shard_infos.is_empty());