What is "Successfully posted metrics data via api client" and why half of teh time it takes around 8 seconds to log the next line?

[apupier]

I noticed that Successfully posted metrics data via api client is logged around 50 times per dependabot build.
What is the purpose of it?

In 66% of the time, based on the timestamp, the next log line is taking 8 seconds in average to show up, like if something is blocked.
Is it something critical? Can we try to deactivate it to see if we still have this "slowness" to know if it is really due to it or not?

for instance: https://github.com/apache/camel/actions/runs/25051274995/job/73379414017#step:3:359

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:57:40 GMT updater | 2026/04/28 11:57:40 INFO <job_1340423920> No update needed for dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-google-ai-gemini 1.13.1
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:57:42 GMT   proxy | 2026/04/28 11:57:42 Posting metrics to remote API endpoint
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:57:42 GMT   proxy | 2026/04/28 11:57:42 Successfully posted metrics data via api client
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:57:57 GMT   proxy | 2026/04/28 11:57:57 [076] GET [https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom)
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:57:57 GMT 2026/04/28 11:57:57 [076] 200 [https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom) (cached)

EDIT: this log seems to come from https://github.com/dependabot/proxy/blob/2803a0f0dec888dc2b556d1a9bea8a9d771f8167/internal/metrics/collector_client.go#L120