diff --git a/src/common/k8s-api/__tests__/kube-api.test.ts b/src/common/k8s-api/__tests__/kube-api.test.ts
index 75f73a2490..05da1f89d5 100644
--- a/src/common/k8s-api/__tests__/kube-api.test.ts
+++ b/src/common/k8s-api/__tests__/kube-api.test.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import { forRemoteCluster, KubeApi } from "../kube-api";
 import { KubeJsonApi } from "../kube-json-api";
 import { KubeObject } from "../kube-object";
-import AbortController from "abort-controller";
 import { delay } from "../../utils/delay";
 import { PassThrough } from "stream";
 import { ApiManager } from "../api-manager";
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ import { DeploymentApi, Ingress, IngressApi, Pod, PodApi } from "../endpoints";
 import { getDiForUnitTesting } from "../../../renderer/getDiForUnitTesting";
 import apiManagerInjectable from "../api-manager/manager.injectable";
 import autoRegistrationInjectable from "../api-manager/auto-registration.injectable";
-import { AbortController } from "abort-controller";
+import AbortController from "abort-controller";
 
 jest.mock("../api-manager");
 
diff --git a/src/common/k8s-api/kube-object.store.ts b/src/common/k8s-api/kube-object.store.ts
index bf511beb27..5412bbc87c 100644
--- a/src/common/k8s-api/kube-object.store.ts
+++ b/src/common/k8s-api/kube-object.store.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import logger from "../logger";
 import assert from "assert";
 import type { PartialDeep } from "type-fest";
 import { entries } from "../utils/objects";
-import { AbortController } from "abort-controller";
+import AbortController from "abort-controller";
 
 export type OnLoadFailure = (error: unknown) => void;
 
diff --git a/src/common/utils/abort-controller.ts b/src/common/utils/abort-controller.ts
index 5550dcc9e3..db40edd6f6 100644
--- a/src/common/utils/abort-controller.ts
+++ b/src/common/utils/abort-controller.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE in root directory for more information.
  */
 
-import { AbortController } from "abort-controller";
+import AbortController from "abort-controller";
 
 /**
  * This is like an `AbortController` but will also abort if the parent aborts,
diff --git a/src/renderer/kube-watch-api/kube-watch-api.ts b/src/renderer/kube-watch-api/kube-watch-api.ts
index f38132d84e..95c0442fcb 100644
--- a/src/renderer/kube-watch-api/kube-watch-api.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/kube-watch-api/kube-watch-api.ts
@@ -9,11 +9,7 @@ import { once } from "lodash";
 import type { ClusterFrameContext } from "../cluster-frame-context/cluster-frame-context";
 import logger from "../../common/logger";
 import type { KubeObjectStoreLoadAllParams, KubeObjectStoreSubscribeParams } from "../../common/k8s-api/kube-object.store";
-import type { RequestInit } from "node-fetch";
-import { AbortController } from "abort-controller";
-
-// TODO: upgrade node-fetch once we are starting to use ES modules
-type LegacyAbortSignal = NonNullable<RequestInit["signal"]>;
+import AbortController from "abort-controller";
 
 // Kubernetes watch-api client
 // API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API/Using_readable_streams