5. The data-model includes mentions of

k8s

— just to double-check, k8s isn’t actually a requirement for SigNoz, yes? we don’t really containerize much of anything; our infra is very static. i’m hoping those columns are just to enable extra optional features or something?

It should mostly be there to optimise for k8s and should not trouble non docker installations. BTW can you refer a few places you are talking about so that I can confirm

https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-otel-collector/blob/24cf1da3705cb791a3cb506128963[…]esexporter/migrations/000022_dependency_graph_minutes_v2.up.sql — now that i’m a little less exhausted, it’s pretty clear it’s just a quick way to access a few semantic attributes if present. nbd. (=

that is right. It's enabling some semantic attributes by default if present