Fintech · 4 min read
Helios Payments
Predictive bloat findings prevented a disk-full outage across a 12-node Postgres fleet.
2
Incidents avoided (Q2)
14 days
Forecast lead time
12
Fleet nodes monitored
The problem
Helios Payments operated a 12-node Postgres fleet with uneven autovacuum tuning. Disk growth on two hot tables was invisible until capacity alerts fired — often during end-of-month settlement windows.
The solution
Insightral predictive findings projected 30-day bloat and 60-day disk horizons. Operations scheduled autovacuum tuning and index maintenance during low-traffic windows before charts turned red.
The outcome
A projected disk-full event on a settlement replica was resolved two weeks ahead of the forecast window. Zero settlement-window pages attributed to storage in Q2.
“The forecast showed up before the pager did. That is the whole point.”