diff --git a/calm-hub/pom.xml b/calm-hub/pom.xml
index e5ec065af..9e37b4d4f 100644
--- a/calm-hub/pom.xml
+++ b/calm-hub/pom.xml
@@ -97,6 +97,40 @@
             <artifactId>owasp-java-html-sanitizer</artifactId>
             <version>20240325.1</version>
         </dependency>
+
+        <!-- Caffeine in-memory cache. Use the Quarkus extension, not the bare
+             ben-manes jar: Caffeine builds its cache implementation reflectively,
+             and quarkus-caffeine supplies the native-image reflection config for
+             that (the bare jar would only fail this at native build time). It
+             pulls the ben-manes artifact transitively. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-caffeine</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- JGit for GitHub clone/pull operations -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.eclipse.jgit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.eclipse.jgit</artifactId>
+            <version>7.2.0.202503040940-r</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- Quarkus Scheduler for periodic sync -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-scheduler</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- OpenTelemetry + Micrometer observability -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-opentelemetry</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-micrometer-opentelemetry</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
             <artifactId>quarkus-oidc</artifactId>
diff --git a/calm-hub/src/main/resources/application.properties b/calm-hub/src/main/resources/application.properties
index bb30515be..127bd6f21 100644
--- a/calm-hub/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/calm-hub/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -155,4 +155,37 @@ calm.mcp.enabled=false
 # Log every JSON-RPC message in dev mode for easier debugging of MCP clients.
 %dev.quarkus.mcp.server.traffic-logging=true
 quarkus.log.category."org.finos.calm".level=DEBUG
-quarkus.log.category."org.mongodb.driver".level=OFF
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+quarkus.log.category."org.mongodb.driver".level=OFF
+
+# OpenTelemetry — the extension is always compiled in (quarkus.otel.enabled is a
+# build-time flag; a build-once-deploy-many pipeline can't flip it per environment)
+# and disabled at runtime by default via the genuinely runtime-mutable
+# quarkus.otel.sdk.disabled. Set CALM_OTEL_DISABLED=false on the deployed
+# container/process to turn it on — no rebuild required.
+quarkus.otel.service.name=${OTEL_SERVICE_NAME:calm-hub}
+quarkus.otel.enabled=true
+quarkus.otel.sdk.disabled=${CALM_OTEL_DISABLED:true}
+quarkus.otel.exporter.otlp.endpoint=${OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT:http://localhost:4317}
+quarkus.otel.traces.sampler=parentbased_traceidratio
+quarkus.otel.traces.sampler.arg=${CALM_OTEL_SAMPLING_RATIO:1.0}
+# Micrometer has no equivalent runtime-mutable switch — quarkus.micrometer.enabled
+# and the binder .enabled properties below are all build-time-fixed (they decide
+# which binder beans get compiled in at all), so CALM_OTEL_METRICS_ENABLED is a
+# build-time knob: it must be set when the artifact is built, not per-deployment.
+quarkus.micrometer.enabled=true
+quarkus.micrometer.binder.http-server.enabled=${CALM_OTEL_METRICS_ENABLED:false}
+quarkus.micrometer.binder.http-client.enabled=${CALM_OTEL_METRICS_ENABLED:false}
+
+# Disable Micrometer to avoid noise across every test profile in this module —
+# quarkus.micrometer.enabled is build/run-time-fixed per active profile NAME (the
+# same pitfall the jacoco comment above documents), so a %test. prefix only
+# applies when a test's QuarkusTestProfile.getConfigProfile() is literally "test";
+# each custom profile name used in this module needs its own override or
+# Micrometer's core registry (and its auto-enabled binders) stays active under it.
+# quarkus.otel.sdk.disabled needs no such per-profile treatment: it's genuinely
+# RUN_TIME-scoped and already defaults to disabled everywhere, tests included.
+%test.quarkus.micrometer.enabled=false
+%integration-test.quarkus.micrometer.enabled=false
+%nitrite-integration-test.quarkus.micrometer.enabled=false
+%secure.quarkus.micrometer.enabled=false
+%proxy-auth.quarkus.micrometer.enabled=false
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