diff --git a/badhouseplants/helmfile.yaml b/badhouseplants/helmfile.yaml
index 89ced65..479557f 100644
--- a/badhouseplants/helmfile.yaml
+++ b/badhouseplants/helmfile.yaml
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ releases:
     createNamespace: true
 
   - <<: *loki
-    installed: false
+    installed: true
     namespace: monitoring-system
     createNamespace: false
 
   - <<: *promtail
-    installed: false
+    installed: true
     namespace: monitoring-system
     createNamespace: false
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ releases:
     createNamespace: true
 
   - <<: *mysql
-    installed: true
+    installed: false
     namespace: database-service
     createNamespace: true
 
diff --git a/badhouseplants/values/values.loki.yaml b/badhouseplants/values/values.loki.yaml
index 0be3069..76f2f8f 100644
--- a/badhouseplants/values/values.loki.yaml
+++ b/badhouseplants/values/values.loki.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,22 @@
 ---
 singleBinary:
   replicas: 1
+  persistence:
+    size: 5Gi
 loki:
   auth_enabled: false
   commonConfig:
     replication_factor: 1
+  storage:
+    type: 'filesystem'
+monitoring:
+  selfMonitoring:
+    enabled: false
+  lokiCanary:
+    enabled: false
+test:
+  enabled: false
 compactor:
   retention_enabled: true
 limits_config:
-  retention_period: 2d
+  retention_period: 14d
diff --git a/badhouseplants/values/values.promtail.yaml b/badhouseplants/values/values.promtail.yaml
index 7846cec..7e5d7b1 100644
--- a/badhouseplants/values/values.promtail.yaml
+++ b/badhouseplants/values/values.promtail.yaml
@@ -3,3 +3,9 @@ config:
   clients:
     #    - url: http://loki.monitoring-system:3100
     - url: http://loki-gateway/loki/api/v1/push
+  snippets:
+    pipelineStages:
+      - match:
+          pipeline_name: "drop-all"
+          selector: '{namespace!="mail-service"}'
+          action: drop