diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5db2d87..65e5ac2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ hyper = "1"
 tower-test = "0.4.0"
 
 [dependencies.kube]
-features = ["runtime", "client", "derive" ]
+features = ["runtime", "client", "derive", "unstable-runtime"]
 version = "0.96.0"
 
 # testing new releases - ignore
diff --git a/src/controller.rs b/src/controller.rs
index a40e69b..dfe4bb7 100644
--- a/src/controller.rs
+++ b/src/controller.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::{telemetry, Error, Metrics, Result};
-use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
+use chrono::{DateTime, SecondsFormat, Utc};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use kube::{
     api::{Api, ListParams, Patch, PatchParams, ResourceExt},
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use kube::{
         controller::{Action, Controller},
         events::{Event, EventType, Recorder, Reporter},
         finalizer::{finalizer, Event as Finalizer},
-        watcher::Config,
+        predicates, reflector, watcher, WatchStreamExt,
     },
     CustomResource, Resource,
 };
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ pub struct DocumentSpec {
 #[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Clone, Default, Debug, JsonSchema)]
 pub struct DocumentStatus {
     pub hidden: bool,
+    pub last_update: String,
 }
 
 impl Document {
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ impl Document {
             "kind": "Document",
             "status": DocumentStatus {
                 hidden: should_hide,
+                last_update: Utc::now().to_rfc3339_opts(SecondsFormat::Secs, true),
             }
         }));
         let ps = PatchParams::apply("cntrlr").force();
@@ -209,7 +211,13 @@ pub async fn run(state: State) {
         info!("Installation: cargo run --bin crdgen | kubectl apply -f -");
         std::process::exit(1);
     }
-    Controller::new(docs, Config::default().any_semantic())
+    // Trigger the controller only when there are real changes to the crd
+    let (reader, writer) = reflector::store();
+    let triggers = reflector(writer, watcher(docs, watcher::Config::default().any_semantic()))
+        .applied_objects()
+        .predicate_filter(predicates::generation);
+
+    Controller::for_stream(triggers, reader)
         .shutdown_on_signal()
         .run(reconcile, error_policy, state.to_context(client))
         .filter_map(|x| async move { std::result::Result::ok(x) })
diff --git a/yaml/crd.yaml b/yaml/crd.yaml
index 3ad309c..7275f64 100644
--- a/yaml/crd.yaml
+++ b/yaml/crd.yaml
@@ -42,8 +42,11 @@ spec:
             properties:
               hidden:
                 type: boolean
+              last_update:
+                type: string
             required:
             - hidden
+            - last_update
             type: object
         required:
         - spec