diff --git a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/HttpModule.java b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/HttpModule.java
index b140cb4..83e8487 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/HttpModule.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/HttpModule.java
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 
   @Override
   protected void configureServlets() {
+    DynamicSet.bind(binder(), AllRequestFilter.class)
+        .to(PullReplicationApiMetricsFilter.class)
+        .in(Scopes.SINGLETON);
+
     if (isReplica) {
       DynamicSet.bind(binder(), AllRequestFilter.class)
           .to(PullReplicationFilter.class)
@@ -38,9 +42,5 @@
     } else {
       serveRegex("/init-project/.*$").with(ProjectInitializationAction.class);
     }
-
-    DynamicSet.bind(binder(), AllRequestFilter.class)
-        .to(PullReplicationApiMetricsFilter.class)
-        .in(Scopes.SINGLETON);
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/ActionITBase.java b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/ActionITBase.java
index 55ad15c..6691fdf 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/ActionITBase.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/ActionITBase.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     httpModule = "com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.replication.pull.api.HttpModule")
 public abstract class ActionITBase extends LightweightPluginDaemonTest {
   protected static final Optional<String> ALL_PROJECTS = Optional.empty();
-  protected static final int TEST_REPLICATION_DELAY = 60;
+  protected static final int TEST_REPLICATION_DELAY = 1;
   protected static final String TEST_REPLICATION_SUFFIX = "suffix1";
   protected static final String TEST_REPLICATION_REMOTE = "remote1";
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/FetchActionIT.java b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/FetchActionIT.java
index 5634b2a..440de99 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/FetchActionIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/replication/pull/api/FetchActionIT.java
@@ -42,6 +42,24 @@
 
   @Test
   @GerritConfig(name = "container.replica", value = "true")
+  public void shouldFetchRefAsyncWhenNodeIsAReplica() throws Exception {
+    String refName = createRef();
+    String sendObjectPayload =
+        "{\"label\":\""
+            + TEST_REPLICATION_REMOTE
+            + "\", \"ref_name\": \""
+            + refName
+            + "\", \"async\":true}";
+
+    httpClientFactory
+        .create(source)
+        .execute(
+            withBasicAuthenticationAsAdmin(createRequest(sendObjectPayload)),
+            assertHttpResponseCode(202));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  @GerritConfig(name = "container.replica", value = "true")
   public void shouldFetchRefWhenNodeIsAReplicaAndProjectNameContainsSlash() throws Exception {
     NameKey projectName = Project.nameKey("test/repo");
     String refName = createRef(projectName);