[8.17] [APM] Improve performance in `dependencies` endpoints to prevent high CPU usage (#209999) (#210317)

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This will backport the following commits from `main` to `8.17`:
- [[APM] Improve performance in `dependencies` endpoints to
prevent high CPU usage
(#209999)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/209999)

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Co-authored-by: Milosz Marcinkowski <38698566+miloszmarcinkowski@users.noreply.github.com>

x-pack/plugins/observability_solution/apm/server/lib/connections/get_connection_stats/index.ts

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export function getConnectionStats({
       const { stats: statsA, ...itemA } = a;
       const { stats: statsB, ...itemB } = b;
 
-      return merge({}, itemA, itemB, { stats: statsA.concat(statsB) });
+      return { ...merge({}, itemA, itemB), stats: statsA.concat(statsB) };
     });
 
     const statsItems = statsJoinedById.map((item) => {