https://a2c17dad.gnmic-operator2.pages.dev/tags/scaling/Recent content in Scaling on gNMIc OperatorHugoen-usSun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://a2c17dad.gnmic-operator2.pages.dev/blog/2026-04-12-scaling-target-distribution/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://a2c17dad.gnmic-operator2.pages.dev/blog/2026-04-12-scaling-target-distribution/<p>Every telemetry deployment eventually hits the same question: how many collector pods do you need, and what happens when that number changes? A new datacenter comes online and 200 targets get added to the inventory. A firmware rollout restarts half the fabric and every device reconnects at once. The three gNMIc pods that handled the workload comfortably are now saturated, and someone has to bump a replica count and wait for redistribution to settle.</p>