diff --git a/mainhandler/handlerequests.go b/mainhandler/handlerequests.go
index b2957ee..7b50f7a 100644
--- a/mainhandler/handlerequests.go
+++ b/mainhandler/handlerequests.go
@@ -405,6 +405,12 @@ func (mainHandler *MainHandler) HandleImageScanningScopedRequest(ctx context.Con
 					continue
 				}
 
+				noContainerSlug, _ := instanceID.GetSlug(true)
+				if ok := slugs[noContainerSlug]; ok {
+					// container profile already scanned for this workload, skip remaining containers
+					continue
+				}
+
 				// get container data
 				containerData, err := utils.PodToContainerData(mainHandler.k8sAPI, pod, instanceID, mainHandler.config.ClusterName())
 				if err != nil {
@@ -412,7 +418,6 @@ func (mainHandler *MainHandler) HandleImageScanningScopedRequest(ctx context.Con
 					continue
 				}
 
-				noContainerSlug, _ := instanceID.GetSlug(true)
 				if profile := utils.GetContainerProfileForRelevancyScan(ctx, mainHandler.ksStorageClient, noContainerSlug, ns); profile != nil {
 					cmd := utils.GetContainerProfileScanCommand(profile, pod)
 
diff --git a/utils/containerprofile.go b/utils/containerprofile.go
index 502d39f..dd375cf 100644
--- a/utils/containerprofile.go
+++ b/utils/containerprofile.go
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ func SkipContainerProfile(annotations map[string]string) (bool, error) {
 		return true, fmt.Errorf("no annotations") // skip
 	}
 
+	if _, ok := annotations[helpersv1.ReportSeriesIdMetadataKey]; ok {
+		return true, nil // skip TS profiles
+	}
 	if status, ok := annotations[helpersv1.StatusMetadataKey]; ok && !slices.Contains(ann, status) {
 		return true, fmt.Errorf("invalid status")
 	}