Improving the data access services in the VO ecosystem (Euro-VO Weather Report)

In an ongoing push to improve the data access services in the VO ecosystem, I’ve contacted more than 50 data providers and asked them to address specific issues with their services. The VO community has answered and is improving its services at an unprecedented rate. I will present the status of this effort and the overall health of the VO ecosystem.

ESDC Statistics and LLM Crawlers

The talk will provide an overview of usage statistics for ESA’s archive services, highlighting patterns observed in automated access, including activity likely associated with LLM-driven crawlers, and open a discussion on these trends with the community.

(TBD) Experiences in the CDS managing increasing load due to automated client activity (e.g. IA crawlers, bots, ...)