Nyxus / Deployment lab

Your estate.Your infrastructure.

MEASURED, THEN ROUNDED UP · 0.1.0
~19,000 devices on one node · synthetic estate, 16 Sept 2026

01Where it runsChoose one

02Devices reportingType a number or drag

devices

120,000 · type above for more

Only know your headcount?

03Activity per device / dayChoose one

Reporting windowType to changedaysDrives portal memoryLog retentionType to changedaysDrives disk, not portal memory

THE MARGINAL FOOTPRINT

Adds 2 pods to your cluster: 1 GiB memory, ~1.2 vCPU while ingesting, plus a 1 GB receiver volume.

Node2 GiBRAM budget incl. 25%~1.2vCPU while ingesting

receiver · 512Miportal · 512Mi25% system allowance

receiver volume · 1 GB

Outside the nodeExternal Loki · 512Mi · 20 GB

PORTAL READ WINDOW22,400 / 100,000 findings

Your reporting window fits.8,928 devices fit at this activity and window

See it piece by piece

Kubernetes · the default route

Two pods.Your Loki.

Two workloads, running in your infrastructure. Open the deployment to pull it apart, follow the data and see what each layer does.

k9s · nyxus-prod

Context:nyxus-prod [RW]

Cluster:nyxus-prod

User:admin

K9s Rev:v0.51.0

K8s Rev:v1.35.4

CPU:4%

MEM:29%

<0> all

<1> nyxus

 ____  __ ________
|    |/  /   __   \______
|       /\____    /  ___/
|    \   \  /    /\___  \
|____|\__ \/____//____  /
         \/           \/

pods(nyxus)[2]

NAME↑PFREADYSTATUSRESTARTSCPUMEM%MEM/LIPNODEAGE

click in, then j/k · l · s · d · y · esc

Illustrative session: output captured from a real install, with names and addresses changed. CPU and memory are idle readings from a test cluster; memory limits, the receiver volume and the findings the portal reads follow your plan above.

Storage growth

Retention grows disk,not memory.

Logs held at 3,200 findings a day, against the budget the plan rounds up to.

30 days14.4 MB held · 20 GB budget

90 days43.2 MB held · 20 GB budget

365 days175.2 MB held · 20 GB budget

Cost it yourself

The shapeto price.

2 vCPU · 2 GiB RAM · 1 GB receiver volume (node OS disk additional) · 1 node

Checking published prices…

Reference sizes:AWS m7i.large / m7i.xlargeAzure D2as_v5 / D4as_v5

Take it with you

Everything you needto take forward.

Nyxus 0.1.0 · planning estimate
2,000 devices · typical activity (1.6/device/day)
7-day reporting window · 30-day log retention
22,400 findings in window
Kubernetes: 2 pods; 2 optional CronJobs. External Loki required.
Pod footprint: 1 GiB, ~1.2 vCPU while ingesting (1 receiver + 0.2 portal planning allowance, not measured).
Portal memory limit: 512Mi; receiver: 512Mi, exactly 1 replica.
Application memory plus 25% system allowance: 2 GiB (rounded up).
Receiver storage: 1 GB. External Loki budget: 512Mi, 20 GB.
Prices and Nyxus subscription excluded.

Planning templates. Verify keys against your chart or Compose file before applying. Prices and the Nyxus subscription are excluded.