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+prometheus:
+  retentionDays: 30
+  storageSize: 100Gi
+
+grafana:
+  adminPassword: ""  # set via --set grafana.adminPassword=... or Vault
+  dashboards:
+    - nexus-api-latency
+    - nexus-infra-overview
+    - nexus-slo-burn-rate
+
+alertmanager:
+  receivers:
+    - pagerduty
+    - slack-ops