diff --git a/app/jobs/application_job.rb b/app/jobs/application_job.rb
index 9c8c0ec7d..805fc0b4a 100644
--- a/app/jobs/application_job.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/application_job.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 class ApplicationJob < ActiveJob::Base
   include ApplicationJob::HasDelayedJobMonitoringCompatibilty
+  include ApplicationJob::HasQueuingPriority
 
   # Automatically retry jobs that encountered a deadlock
   # retry_on ActiveRecord::Deadlocked
diff --git a/app/jobs/application_job/has_queuing_priority.rb b/app/jobs/application_job/has_queuing_priority.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..573463140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/jobs/application_job/has_queuing_priority.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+class ApplicationJob
+  module HasQueuingPriority
+    extend ActiveSupport::Concern
+
+    included do
+      queue_with_priority 200
+    end
+
+    class_methods do
+      def low_priority
+        queue_with_priority 300
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/jobs/search_index_associations_job.rb b/app/jobs/search_index_associations_job.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9a7e84b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/jobs/search_index_associations_job.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class SearchIndexAssociationsJob < SearchIndexJob
+
+  def update_search_index(record)
+    record.search_index_update_associations_delta
+    record.search_index_update_associations_full
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/jobs/search_index_job.rb b/app/jobs/search_index_job.rb
index 26ed95272..a1d7053e4 100644
--- a/app/jobs/search_index_job.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/search_index_job.rb
@@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
 class SearchIndexJob < ApplicationJob
   include HasActiveJobLock
 
+  low_priority
+
   retry_on StandardError, attempts: 20, wait: lambda { |executions|
     executions * 10.seconds
   }
 
   def lock_key
-    # "SearchIndexJob/User/42/true"
-    "#{self.class.name}/#{arguments[0]}/#{arguments[1]}/#{arguments[2]}"
+    # "SearchIndexJob/User/42"
+    "#{self.class.name}/#{arguments[0]}/#{arguments[1]}"
   end
 
-  def perform(object, o_id, update_associations = true)
+  def perform(object, o_id)
     @object = object
     @o_id   = o_id
 
     record = @object.constantize.lookup(id: @o_id)
     return if !exists?(record)
 
+    update_search_index(record)
+  end
+
+  def update_search_index(record)
     record.search_index_update_backend
-
-    return if !update_associations
-
-    record.search_index_update_associations_delta
-    record.search_index_update_associations_full
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/app/models/concerns/has_search_index_backend.rb b/app/models/concerns/has_search_index_backend.rb
index e65f60410..8250c5558 100644
--- a/app/models/concerns/has_search_index_backend.rb
+++ b/app/models/concerns/has_search_index_backend.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ module HasSearchIndexBackend
   included do
     after_create  :search_index_update
     after_update  :search_index_update
-    after_touch   :search_index_update
+    after_touch   :search_index_update_touch
     after_destroy :search_index_destroy
   end
 
@@ -24,6 +24,26 @@ update search index, if configured - will be executed automatically
     # start background job to transfer data to search index
     return true if !SearchIndexBackend.enabled?
 
+    SearchIndexJob.perform_later(self.class.to_s, id)
+    SearchIndexAssociationsJob.perform_later(self.class.to_s, id)
+    true
+  end
+
+=begin
+
+update search index, if configured - will be executed automatically
+
+  model = Model.find(123)
+  model.search_index_update_touch
+
+=end
+
+  def search_index_update_touch
+    return true if ignore_search_indexing?(:update)
+
+    # start background job to transfer data to search index
+    return true if !SearchIndexBackend.enabled?
+
     SearchIndexJob.perform_later(self.class.to_s, id)
     true
   end
@@ -49,7 +69,7 @@ returns
     # we can not use the delta function for this because of the excluded
     # ticket article attachments. see explain in delta function
     Ticket.select('id').where(organization_id: id).order(id: :desc).limit(10_000).pluck(:id).each do |ticket_id|
-      SearchIndexJob.perform_later('Ticket', ticket_id, false)
+      SearchIndexJob.perform_later('Ticket', ticket_id)
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/test/integration/report_test.rb b/test/integration/report_test.rb
index 6deb899d3..de0792ae4 100644
--- a/test/integration/report_test.rb
+++ b/test/integration/report_test.rb
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ class ReportTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
     # execute background jobs
     Scheduler.worker(true)
+    SearchIndexBackend.refresh
   end
 
   test 'compare' do