diff --git a/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/alloy.yaml b/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/alloy.yaml
index d3d6a0db..857c10e7 100644
--- a/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/alloy.yaml
+++ b/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/alloy.yaml
@@ -100,10 +100,13 @@ alloy:
       }
 
   # Resource limits for DaemonSet pods
+  # Alloy tails logs from all containers on the node via K8s API and batches
+  # them to Loki. Memory scales with number of active log streams (~30-50 per node).
+  # 128Mi was OOMKilled; steady-state usage is ~400-450Mi per pod.
   resources:
     requests:
       cpu: 50m
-      memory: 64Mi
+      memory: 256Mi
     limits:
       cpu: 200m
-      memory: 128Mi
+      memory: 768Mi
diff --git a/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/idrac.tf b/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/idrac.tf
index 99ba0b93..8d4d2572 100644
--- a/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/idrac.tf
+++ b/modules/kubernetes/monitoring/idrac.tf
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ resource "kubernetes_deployment" "idrac-redfish" {
         }
       }
       spec {
+        priority_class_name = "tier-1-cluster"
         container {
           # https://github.com/mrlhansen/idrac_exporter?tab=readme-ov-file
           image = "ghcr.io/mrlhansen/idrac_exporter:latest"