diff --git a/deployment/services/environment.ts b/deployment/services/environment.ts
index 5b94a878b..7ee284c93 100644
--- a/deployment/services/environment.ts
+++ b/deployment/services/environment.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ export function prepareEnvironment(input: {
         cpuLimit: isProduction || isStaging ? '1000m' : '100m',
         memoryLimit: isProduction || isStaging ? '1000Mi' : '512Mi',
         maxReplicas: isProduction || isStaging ? 3 : 1,
+        replicas: 1,
       },
     },
   };
diff --git a/deployment/services/otel-collector.ts b/deployment/services/otel-collector.ts
index dffebf7eb..9eec965cd 100644
--- a/deployment/services/otel-collector.ts
+++ b/deployment/services/otel-collector.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export function deployOTELCollector(args: {
       livenessProbe: '/',
       startupProbe: '/',
       exposesMetrics: true,
-      replicas: args.environment.podsConfig.tracingCollector.maxReplicas,
+      replicas: args.environment.podsConfig.tracingCollector.replicas,
       pdb: true,
       availabilityOnEveryNode: true,
       port: 4318,