This is AZ Monitoring showing the types of operations happening on CosmosDB. What is the Head operation reported 17.4K times in the above screenshot? I understand the operations Query, Create etc. I don't know what I am doing that results in Head operation and how can I reduce it. I couldn't find any public documentation about it.
Collection Head requests are internal metadata requests which are used to provide the Strong consistency guarantees. These requests are not charged. A transient increase in the number of collection head requests can happen when there is transient replication delay from the write region to the read region. These are usually resolved automatically.