diff --git a/monitoring/README.md b/monitoring/README.md
index 0833a9a..3a5856c 100644
--- a/monitoring/README.md
+++ b/monitoring/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ You can find the dashboard under `Home > Dashboards > grafana > CloudNativePG`.
 
 ![dashboard](image.png)
 
+> **Note:** Grafana Live is disabled (`max_connections: 0`) to prevent
+> WebSocket connection buildup that can exhaust kubectl port-forward
+> streams and cause timeout errors. This means real-time dashboard
+> streaming is unavailable, but all other Grafana features work normally
+> when accessed via port-forward.
+
 ## PodMonitor
 
 To enable Prometheus to scrape metrics from your PostgreSQL pods, you must
diff --git a/monitoring/grafana/grafana_instance.yaml b/monitoring/grafana/grafana_instance.yaml
index 01a66d1..04df677 100644
--- a/monitoring/grafana/grafana_instance.yaml
+++ b/monitoring/grafana/grafana_instance.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ spec:
     security:
       admin_user: admin
       admin_password: admin
+    live:
+      max_connections: "0"
   deployment:
     spec:
       template: