What to Do When Qdrant Needs to Scale Vertically Vertical scaling means increasing CPU, RAM, or disk on existing nodes rather than adding more nodes. This is the recommended first step before considering horizontal scaling. Vertical scaling is simpler, avoids distributed system complexity, and is reversible. - Vertical scaling for Qdrant Cloud is done through the Qdrant Cloud Console - For self-hosted deployments, resize the underlying VM or container resources When to Scale Vertically Use when: current node resources (RAM, CPU, disk) are insufficient, but the workload doesn't yet require dis…