Add VictoriaMetrics observability stack + sync catalog for monitoring test

- VM stack 10 charts: victoria-metrics-cluster/auth, victoria-logs-cluster,
  victoria-metrics-agent/alert, opentelemetry-collector, kube-state-metrics,
  prometheus-node-exporter, alertmanager, perses (JWT/OIDC, Infisical-ready)
- ArgoCD ApplicationSet (syncWave) + per-chart dip-values overlays
- doc/victoria-metrics-architecture.md, define-chart-resources updates
- includes pending working-tree changes (mlflow, kubeflow, apisix, CLAUDE.md)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

manifests/helm/perses/0.21.0/templates/pvc.yaml

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+{{- if .Values.persistence.enabled }}
+kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "perses.fullname" . }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "perses.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: storage
+  {{- with .Values.persistence.annotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+{{- if .Values.persistence.storageClass }}
+  storageClassName: {{ .Values.persistence.storageClass }}
+{{- end }}
+  accessModes:
+  {{- range .Values.persistence.accessModes }}
+    - {{ . | quote }}
+  {{- end }}
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      storage: {{ .Values.persistence.size | quote }}
+{{- end }}