diff --git a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/manifests/forgejo-s3-backup-cronjob.yaml b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/manifests/forgejo-s3-backup-cronjob.yaml
index ba0aebd..0b260c1 100644
--- a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/manifests/forgejo-s3-backup-cronjob.yaml
+++ b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/manifests/forgejo-s3-backup-cronjob.yaml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ spec:
             - /bin/sh
             - -c
             - |
-              rclone sync source:/${SOURCE_BUCKET}/packages /backup -v --ignore-checksum
+              rclone sync source:/${SOURCE_BUCKET} /backup -v --ignore-checksum
           restartPolicy: OnFailure
           volumes:
           - name: rclone-config
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
 metadata:
   name: s3-backup
   namespace: gitea
+  annotations:
+    everest.io/disk-volume-type: SATA
+    everest.io/crypt-key-id: c02a26f1-3c7e-486d-ba5a-266c321bb203
 spec:
+  storageClassName: csi-disk
   accessModes:
     - ReadWriteOnce
   resources:
diff --git a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/values.yaml b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/values.yaml
index c693e3e..3a40780 100644
--- a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/values.yaml
+++ b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/forgejo/forgejo-server/values.yaml
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ postgresql-ha:
 persistence:
   enabled: true
   size: 200Gi
+  storageClass: csi-disk
   annotations:
     everest.io/crypt-key-id: c02a26f1-3c7e-486d-ba5a-266c321bb203
+    everest.io/disk-volume-type: GPSSD
 
 test:
   enabled: false
diff --git a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/grafana-operator/manifests/grafana.yaml b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/grafana-operator/manifests/grafana.yaml
index ef3ef05..af5fa6d 100644
--- a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/grafana-operator/manifests/grafana.yaml
+++ b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/grafana-operator/manifests/grafana.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ metadata:
     dashboards: "grafana"
 spec:
   persistentVolumeClaim:
+    metadata:
+      annotations:
+        everest.io/disk-volume-type: SATA
     spec:
+      storageClassName: csi-disk
       accessModes:
         - ReadWriteOnce
       resources:
diff --git a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/manifests/vlogs.yaml b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/manifests/vlogs.yaml
index b9a422a..9b7e968 100644
--- a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/manifests/vlogs.yaml
+++ b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/manifests/vlogs.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ spec:
   storageMetadata:
     annotations:
       everest.io/crypt-key-id: c02a26f1-3c7e-486d-ba5a-266c321bb203
+      everest.io/disk-volume-type: SATA
   storage:
+    storageClassName: csi-disk
     accessModes:
       - ReadWriteOnce
     resources:
@@ -21,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
       cpu: 500m
     limits:
       memory: 10Gi
-      cpu: 2
\ No newline at end of file
+      cpu: 2
diff --git a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/values.yaml b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/values.yaml
index 988cec6..554446a 100644
--- a/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/values.yaml
+++ b/otc/observability.buildth.ing/stacks/observability/victoria-k8s-stack/values.yaml
@@ -289,7 +289,9 @@ vmsingle:
     storageMetadata:
       annotations:
         everest.io/crypt-key-id: c02a26f1-3c7e-486d-ba5a-266c321bb203
+        everest.io/disk-volume-type: SATA
     storage:
+      storageClassName: csi-disk
       accessModes:
         - ReadWriteOnce
       resources:
@@ -536,108 +538,29 @@ alertmanager:
   # If you're migrating existing config, please make sure that `.Values.alertmanager.config`:
   # - with `useManagedConfig: false` has structure described [here](https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/).
   # - with `useManagedConfig: true` has structure described [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api/#vmalertmanagerconfig).
-  useManagedConfig: false
+  useManagedConfig: true
   # -- (object) Alertmanager configuration
   config:
     route:
-      receiver: "blackhole"
-    #   group_by: ["alertgroup", "job"]
-    #   group_wait: 30s
-    #   group_interval: 5m
-    #   repeat_interval: 12h
-    #   routes:
-    #
-    #     # Duplicate code_owner routes to teams
-    #     # These will send alerts to team channels but continue
-    #     # processing through the rest of the tree to handled by on-call
-    #     - matchers:
-    #         - code_owner_channel!=""
-    #         - severity=~"info|warning|critical"
-    #       group_by: ["code_owner_channel", "alertgroup", "job"]
-    #       receiver: slack-code-owners
-    #
-    #     # Standard on-call routes
-    #     - matchers:
-    #         - severity=~"info|warning|critical"
-    #       receiver: slack-monitoring
-    #       continue: true
-    #
-    # inhibit_rules:
-    #   - target_matchers:
-    #       - severity=~"warning|info"
-    #     source_matchers:
-    #       - severity=critical
-    #     equal:
-    #       - cluster
-    #       - namespace
-    #       - alertname
-    #   - target_matchers:
-    #       - severity=info
-    #     source_matchers:
-    #       - severity=warning
-    #     equal:
-    #       - cluster
-    #       - namespace
-    #       - alertname
-    #   - target_matchers:
-    #       - severity=info
-    #     source_matchers:
-    #       - alertname=InfoInhibitor
-    #     equal:
-    #       - cluster
-    #       - namespace
-
+      receiver: "outlook"
+      routes: 
+        - matchers:
+            - alertname=~".*"
+          receiver: outlook
     receivers:
-      - name: blackhole
-    # - name: "slack-monitoring"
-    #   slack_configs:
-    #     - channel: "#channel"
-    #       send_resolved: true
-    #       title: '{{ template "slack.monzo.title" . }}'
-    #       icon_emoji: '{{ template "slack.monzo.icon_emoji" . }}'
-    #       color: '{{ template "slack.monzo.color" . }}'
-    #       text: '{{ template "slack.monzo.text" . }}'
-    #       actions:
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Runbook :green_book:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).Annotations.runbook_url }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Query :mag:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).GeneratorURL }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Dashboard :grafana:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).Annotations.dashboard }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Silence :no_bell:"
-    #           url: '{{ template "__alert_silence_link" . }}'
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: '{{ template "slack.monzo.link_button_text" . }}'
-    #           url: "{{ .CommonAnnotations.link_url }}"
-    # - name: slack-code-owners
-    #   slack_configs:
-    #     - channel: "#{{ .CommonLabels.code_owner_channel }}"
-    #       send_resolved: true
-    #       title: '{{ template "slack.monzo.title" . }}'
-    #       icon_emoji: '{{ template "slack.monzo.icon_emoji" . }}'
-    #       color: '{{ template "slack.monzo.color" . }}'
-    #       text: '{{ template "slack.monzo.text" . }}'
-    #       actions:
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Runbook :green_book:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).Annotations.runbook }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Query :mag:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).GeneratorURL }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Dashboard :grafana:"
-    #           url: "{{ (index .Alerts 0).Annotations.dashboard }}"
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: "Silence :no_bell:"
-    #           url: '{{ template "__alert_silence_link" . }}'
-    #         - type: button
-    #           text: '{{ template "slack.monzo.link_button_text" . }}'
-    #           url: "{{ .CommonAnnotations.link_url }}"
-    #
+      - name: outlook
+        email_configs:
+          - smarthost: 'mail.mms-support.de:465'
+            auth_username: 'ipcei-cis-devfw@mms-support.de'
+            auth_password: 
+              name: email-user-credentials
+              key: connection-string
+            from: '"IPCEI CIS DevFW" <ipcei-cis-devfw@mms-support.de>'
+            to: 'f9f9953a.mg.telekom.de@de.teams.ms'
+            headers:
+              subject: 'Grafana Mail Alerts'
+            require_tls: false
+
   # -- Better alert templates for [slack source](https://gist.github.com/milesbxf/e2744fc90e9c41b47aa47925f8ff6512)
   monzoTemplate:
     enabled: true
@@ -880,7 +803,7 @@ grafana:
   enabled: false
   # all values for grafana helm chart can be specified here
   persistence:
-    enabled: true
+    enabled: false
     type: pvc
     storageClassName: "default"
   grafana.ini: