diff --git a/meilisearch-types/src/error.rs b/meilisearch-types/src/error.rs
index fe0d75dae..f16097da1 100644
--- a/meilisearch-types/src/error.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-types/src/error.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::{fmt, io};
 
 use actix_web::http::StatusCode;
 use actix_web::{self as aweb, HttpResponseBuilder};
+use aweb::http::header;
 use aweb::rt::task::JoinError;
 use convert_case::Casing;
 use milli::heed::{Error as HeedError, MdbError};
@@ -56,7 +57,14 @@ where
 impl aweb::error::ResponseError for ResponseError {
     fn error_response(&self) -> aweb::HttpResponse {
         let json = serde_json::to_vec(self).unwrap();
-        HttpResponseBuilder::new(self.status_code()).content_type("application/json").body(json)
+        let mut builder = HttpResponseBuilder::new(self.status_code());
+        builder.content_type("application/json");
+
+        if self.code == StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE {
+            builder.insert_header((header::RETRY_AFTER, "10"));
+        }
+
+        builder.body(json)
     }
 
     fn status_code(&self) -> StatusCode {
diff --git a/meilisearch/src/error.rs b/meilisearch/src/error.rs
index 48c44c12d..bb1156997 100644
--- a/meilisearch/src/error.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/src/error.rs
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ pub enum MeilisearchHttpError {
     InvalidExpression(&'static [&'static str], Value),
     #[error("A {0} payload is missing.")]
     MissingPayload(PayloadType),
-    #[error("Too many search requests running at the same time: {0}. Retry after {1:?}.")]
-    TooManySearchRequests(usize, std::time::Duration),
+    #[error("Too many search requests running at the same time: {0}. Retry after 10s.")]
+    TooManySearchRequests(usize),
     #[error("Internal error: Search limiter is down")]
     SearchLimiterIsDown,
     #[error("The provided payload reached the size limit. The maximum accepted payload size is {}.",  Byte::from_bytes(*.0 as u64).get_appropriate_unit(true))]
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ impl ErrorCode for MeilisearchHttpError {
             MeilisearchHttpError::EmptyFilter => Code::InvalidDocumentFilter,
             MeilisearchHttpError::InvalidExpression(_, _) => Code::InvalidSearchFilter,
             MeilisearchHttpError::PayloadTooLarge(_) => Code::PayloadTooLarge,
-            MeilisearchHttpError::TooManySearchRequests(_, _) => Code::TooManySearchRequests,
+            MeilisearchHttpError::TooManySearchRequests(_) => Code::TooManySearchRequests,
             MeilisearchHttpError::SearchLimiterIsDown => Code::Internal,
             MeilisearchHttpError::SwapIndexPayloadWrongLength(_) => Code::InvalidSwapIndexes,
             MeilisearchHttpError::IndexUid(e) => e.error_code(),
diff --git a/meilisearch/src/search_queue.rs b/meilisearch/src/search_queue.rs
index 570394e34..b677f81a4 100644
--- a/meilisearch/src/search_queue.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/src/search_queue.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::{num::NonZeroUsize, time::Duration};
+use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
 
 use rand::{rngs::StdRng, Rng, SeedableRng};
 use tokio::sync::{mpsc, oneshot};
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ impl Drop for Permit {
 
 impl SearchQueue {
     pub fn new(capacity: usize, paralellism: NonZeroUsize) -> Self {
-        // We can make the search requests wait until we're available.
-        // they're going to wait anyway right after, so let's not allocate any
-        // RAM by keeping a capacity of 1.
+        // Search requests are going to wait until we're available anyway,
+        // so let's not allocate any RAM and keep a capacity of 1.
         let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::channel(1);
+
         tokio::task::spawn(Self::run(capacity, paralellism, receiver));
         Self { sender, capacity }
     }
@@ -48,27 +48,22 @@ impl SearchQueue {
             tokio::select! {
                 search_request = receive_new_searches.recv() => {
                     let search_request = search_request.unwrap();
-                    println!("queue contains {} elements and already running {}", queue.len(), searches_running);
                     if searches_running < usize::from(parallelism) && queue.is_empty() {
-                        println!("We can process the search straight away");
                         searches_running += 1;
                         // if the search requests die it's not a hard error on our side
                         let _ = search_request.send(Permit { sender: sender.clone() });
                         continue;
                     }
                     if queue.len() >= capacity {
-                        println!("we're above capacity, dropping a random request");
                         let remove = rng.gen_range(0..queue.len());
                         let thing = queue.swap_remove(remove); // this will drop the channel and notify the search that it won't be processed
                         drop(thing);
                     }
-                    println!("pushed a new search request to the queue {}", queue.len());
                     queue.push(search_request);
                 },
                 _ = search_finished.recv() => {
                     searches_running = searches_running.saturating_sub(1);
                     if !queue.is_empty() {
-                        println!("processed an element in the queue");
                         let remove = rng.gen_range(0..queue.len());
                         let channel = queue.swap_remove(remove);
                         let _ = channel.send(Permit { sender: sender.clone() });
@@ -81,8 +76,6 @@ impl SearchQueue {
     pub async fn try_get_search_permit(&self) -> Result<Permit, MeilisearchHttpError> {
         let (sender, receiver) = oneshot::channel();
         self.sender.send(sender).await.map_err(|_| MeilisearchHttpError::SearchLimiterIsDown)?;
-        receiver.await.map_err(|_| {
-            MeilisearchHttpError::TooManySearchRequests(self.capacity, Duration::from_secs(10))
-        })
+        receiver.await.map_err(|_| MeilisearchHttpError::TooManySearchRequests(self.capacity))
     }
 }