diff --git a/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/nvidia-dcgm-exporter/release.yaml b/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/nvidia-dcgm-exporter/release.yaml
index 500c4caa..49513e4d 100644
--- a/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/nvidia-dcgm-exporter/release.yaml
+++ b/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/nvidia-dcgm-exporter/release.yaml
@@ -52,12 +52,17 @@ spec:
       enabled: true
       type: ClusterIP
       port: 9400
+    # dcgm-exporter 4.x resident set sits around 450 MiB once the DCGM
+    # host engine has initialised, so the previous 256Mi ceiling killed it
+    # ~2s after `DCGM successfully initialized!` on every start. The
+    # upstream chart default is 512Mi; 1Gi leaves headroom above the
+    # observed steady state.
     resources:
       requests:
         cpu: 50m
-        memory: 64Mi
+        memory: 256Mi
         nvidia.com/gpu: 1
       limits:
         cpu: 200m
-        memory: 256Mi
+        memory: 1Gi
         nvidia.com/gpu: 1
diff --git a/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/pyroscope/release.yaml b/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/pyroscope/release.yaml
index b8c3b92b..cce4fd41 100644
--- a/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/pyroscope/release.yaml
+++ b/platform/cluster/flux/apps/observability/pyroscope/release.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ spec:
   values:
     pyroscope:
       replicaCount: 1
+      # The chart ships `extraArgs.log.level: debug`, which makes a
+      # single-binary homelab install log every block flush and memberlist
+      # tick. Nothing consumes those lines.
+      extraArgs:
+        log.level: info
       persistence:
         enabled: true
         size: 20Gi