Explorer and exporter were scanning the full Parquet lake every 1–5s
(~2000 files, 200MB+), driving ~2.2 CPU cores. Limit metrics to the
last N flights, cache DuckDB views and the partition tree, slow live
polls to 2s, and keep drones alive after seal to stop restart churn.
Add node-exporter, scan-duration metrics, and a Swarm Platform Grafana
dashboard for node CPU/memory and scan health.
Ansible provisions the k3d cluster and Flux controllers; Terraform
modules deploy the simulated fleet and ground warehouse. Compose and
k3d share var/t1 (live lake) and var/t3 (warehouse). The prototype
gains a live mode fed by the explorer read-only SQL API.
Single-page view over the Parquet lake: live partition tree with
rolled-up sizes and a SQL console gated by the same read-only rules
as the peer query channel. Ships in the monitoring profile.