From aa51ecd0de07545cf7282af8b5e3cd3a6cc23d1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dotan Simha <dotansimha@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:09:10 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(deployment): use `replicas=1` for otel-collector and
 allow it to scale when needed (#7929)

---
 deployment/services/environment.ts    | 1 +
 deployment/services/otel-collector.ts | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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,