diff --git a/app/workers/all_queues.yml b/app/workers/all_queues.yml
index ab410275235908aaefe2c7548b79941e7a6c8bef..e99b84e9e28c5033a37684733fd0b9ea7db23158 100644
--- a/app/workers/all_queues.yml
+++ b/app/workers/all_queues.yml
@@ -4013,7 +4013,7 @@
   :queue_namespace:
 - :name: flush_counter_increments
   :worker_name: FlushCounterIncrementsWorker
-  :feature_category: :continuous_integration
+  :feature_category: :source_code_management
   :has_external_dependencies: false
   :urgency: :low
   :resource_boundary: :unknown
diff --git a/app/workers/flush_counter_increments_worker.rb b/app/workers/flush_counter_increments_worker.rb
index b20449be4a658b347e7e71ca2abbe8e50dd0fbad..5c4f1350a456bbd8da7bd5cac09bd1615b946309 100644
--- a/app/workers/flush_counter_increments_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/flush_counter_increments_worker.rb
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ class FlushCounterIncrementsWorker
   loggable_arguments 0, 2
   defer_on_database_health_signal :gitlab_main, [:project_daily_statistics], 1.minute
   # The increments in `ProjectStatistics` are owned by several teams depending
-  # on the counter
-  feature_category :continuous_integration
+  # on the counter, but rubocop will not allow shared for workers
+  # Passed model_names updated primarily belong to source_code_management
+  # See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/211119
+  feature_category :source_code_management
 
   urgency :low
   deduplicate :until_executed, including_scheduled: true, if_deduplicated: :reschedule_once