diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.test.ts b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.test.ts
index cbddb1cadd..e7c0f01b2d 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.test.ts
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@ describe('DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory', () => {
     });
 
     it('paginates through catalog entities using batchSize', async () => {
-      // A parallelismLimit of 1 is a catalog limit of 50 per request. Code
-      // above in the /entities handler ensures valid entities are only
-      // returned on the second page.
+      // A parallelismLimit of 1 results in a batchSize of 50 per request.
+      // The catalog returns fewer entities than the batchSize, so the loop
+      // exits after a single page, producing 3 documents (1 entity × 3 search index docs).
       const _config = new ConfigReader({
         ...config.get(),
         search: {
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
index 06af1632d6..0c13aadbc6 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -143,9 +143,8 @@ export class DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory implements DocumentCollatorFactory {
     // at index-time. The batchSize is calculated as a factor of the given
     // parallelism limit to simplify configuration.
     const batchSize = this.parallelismLimit * 50;
+    const credentials = await this.auth.getOwnServiceCredentials();
     while (moreEntitiesToGet) {
-      const credentials = await this.auth.getOwnServiceCredentials();
-
       const entities = (
         await this.catalog.getEntities(
           {