diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 205b90a..6caf91a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3900,6 +3900,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "tree_magic_mini",
diff --git a/cli/Cargo.toml b/cli/Cargo.toml
index 5eaca96..19d2638 100644
--- a/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ futures = "0.3.24"
 futures-util = "~0.3.12"
 tokio = { version = "1.38.1", features = ["sync", "fs", "process", "rt"] }
 async-trait = "0.1.81"
+tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", features = ["time"] }
 
 clap = { version = "4.2.4", features = ["derive", "env", "color", "string", "cargo"] }
 log = "0.4"
diff --git a/cli/src/routes.rs b/cli/src/routes.rs
index 694544f..36c5556 100644
--- a/cli/src/routes.rs
+++ b/cli/src/routes.rs
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::convert::{TryFrom, TryInto};
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
-use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
+use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 use tempfile::NamedTempFile;
 use tracing::{debug, error, info, trace};
 use upend_base::addressing::AddressComponents;
@@ -1103,7 +1103,9 @@ pub async fn get_jobs_stream(
         .stream_jobs()
         .map_err(ErrorInternalServerError)?;
 
-    Ok(sse::Sse::from_stream(jobs.map(|jobs_msg| {
+    let throttled_jobs = tokio_stream::StreamExt::throttle(jobs, Duration::from_millis(200));
+
+    Ok(sse::Sse::from_stream(throttled_jobs.map(|jobs_msg| {
         let jobs = jobs_msg.map_err(|err| anyhow!(err))?;
         let data = sse::Data::new_json(jobs).map_err(|err| anyhow!(err))?;
         Ok::<sse::Event, anyhow::Error>(sse::Event::Data(data))