diff --git a/apps/fleece/merino_fleece/configs/default.toml b/apps/fleece/merino_fleece/configs/default.toml
index 871128b05..670d64412 100644
--- a/apps/fleece/merino_fleece/configs/default.toml
+++ b/apps/fleece/merino_fleece/configs/default.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ shutdown_deadline_sec = 30.0
 # MERINO_FLEECE_SANITIZE__MAX_QUEUE_SIZE
 # Max number of search terms to buffer in the queue. Submissions are rejected with
 # a 503 once this capacity is reached.
-max_queue_size = 10000
+max_queue_size = 11000
 
 # MERINO_FLEECE_SANITIZE__NER_CHUNK_SIZE
 # Number of queries handed to SpaCy's `nlp.pipe()` per thread pool hop. Larger
diff --git a/apps/merino/merino/configs/flags/production.toml b/apps/merino/merino/configs/flags/production.toml
index ee76e5c85..dc2e8c9f3 100644
--- a/apps/merino/merino/configs/flags/production.toml
+++ b/apps/merino/merino/configs/flags/production.toml
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ dynaconf_merge = true
 # Search term submission to merino-fleece; off by default,
 # rolled out by raising `enabled` toward 1.
 [production.flags.search-term-submission]
-enabled = 0.75
+enabled = 1