During July 2025, Axel focused on maintaining and improving the reliability of Helm-based deployments for the logicalclocks/rondb-helm repository. He addressed a monitoring issue by upgrading the mysqld_exporter Docker image tag from version 0.11.2 to 0.11.3 within the Helm chart values, ensuring the deployment benefited from upstream bug fixes and minor enhancements. This targeted change, implemented using YAML and Helm, improved the accuracy and stability of monitoring with minimal disruption to existing manifests. Axel demonstrated strong DevOps practices by clearly linking the update to the relevant issue, providing traceability and maintaining high standards in operational reliability.