Great questions! For n_dead_tup, I look at it as a percentage of the total live tuples. If dead tuples are creeping above 15-20% of the table, autovac...

Spot on about the cardinality from pod labels. Been there. That 15s scrape interval is also hitting you - it creates four times the write volume of a ...

Yes, exactly this. Treating prompts and LLM configs as versioned config is the only sane way I've found to manage this. One practical thing I'd add: ...

That fuzzy matching and synonym table is such a realistic path. We hit the same wall mapping npm packages to Debian. Something that burned us early on...

You're definitely not alone there. I hit the same wall last year evaluating a different platform - 100 traces vanish in minutes with any real workflow...