diff --git a/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/templates/deployment.yaml b/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
index c005668..b92702f 100644
--- a/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ spec:
           {{- range $key, $value := .Values.envValueFrom }}
           - name: {{ $key | quote }}
             valueFrom:
-              {{- tpl (toYaml $value) $ | nindent 10 }}
+              {{- tpl (toYaml $value) $ | nindent 14 }}
           {{- end }}
           {{- range $key, $value := .Values.env }}
           - name: "{{ tpl $key $ }}"
diff --git a/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/values.yaml b/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/values.yaml
index 9e3a8ae..56ef64b 100644
--- a/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/values.yaml
+++ b/deployment/kubernetes/charts/medcat-service-helm/values.yaml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ env:
   # DEID_REDACT: true
 
   # Set SERVER_GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS to a high number instead of the default 1000. Trust k8s instead to restart pod when needed.
-  SERVER_GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS: 1000000
+  SERVER_GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS: 100000
 
   # Recommended env vars to set to try to limit to 1 CPU for scaling
   # OMP_NUM_THREADS: "1"
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ env:
   # PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK: "1"
   # SERVER_GUNICORN_EXTRA_ARGS: "--worker-connections 1 --backlog 1"
 
+  # Observability Env Vars
+  APP_ENABLE_METRICS: true
+  APP_ENABLE_TRACING: false
+  OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: "http://<unused>:4317"
+  OTEL_SERVICE_NAME: "medcat-service"
+  OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER: "otlp"
+  OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL: "grpc"
+  OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_RESOURCE_DETECTORS: "containerid,os"
+  OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES: "k8s.pod.uid=$(K8S_POD_UID),k8s.pod.name=$(K8S_POD_NAME),k8s.namespace.name=$(K8S_POD_NAMESPACE),k8s.node.name=$(K8S_NODE_NAME)"
+  
 # Enable downloading of public models using wget on startup. Model will be downloaded to /models/<name> and used for APP_MEDCAT_MODEL_PACK
 model: {}
   # Public URL to download a model pack from
@@ -51,6 +61,23 @@ model: {}
   # Name of the model pack to save to. Will be stored at /models/<name>
   # name: my-model.zip
 
+
+# Allow setting env values from field/configmap/secret references. Defaults to include k8s details f
+envValueFrom:
+  K8S_NODE_NAME:
+    fieldRef:
+      fieldPath: spec.nodeName
+  K8S_POD_NAME:
+    fieldRef:
+      fieldPath: metadata.name
+  K8S_POD_UID:
+    fieldRef:
+      fieldPath: metadata.uid
+  K8S_POD_NAMESPACE:
+    fieldRef:
+      fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+
+
 # This is for the secrets for pulling an image from a private repository more information can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/
 imagePullSecrets: []
 # This is to override the chart name.