diff --git a/chart/Chart.yaml b/chart/Chart.yaml
index fb10a665..135c7f66 100644
--- a/chart/Chart.yaml
+++ b/chart/Chart.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ keywords:
   - monitoring
   - tracing
   - opentelemetry
-version: 17.4.0
+version: 17.5.0
 # TODO(paulfantom): Enable after kubernetes 1.22 reaches EOL (2022-10-28)
 # kubeVersion: ">= 1.23.0"
 dependencies:
diff --git a/chart/values.yaml b/chart/values.yaml
index 589e0738..52adcec0 100644
--- a/chart/values.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.yaml
@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ timescaledb-single:
   # PGBACKREST_REPO1_S3_KEY_SECRET
   backup:
     enabled: false
+  # Applying tuning to TimescaleDB as per
+  # https://docs.timescale.com/promscale/latest/recommendations/config-recomm/#database-configuration
+  patroni:
+    bootstrap:
+      dcs:
+        postgresql:
+          parameters:
+            checkpoint_timeout: 15min
+            bgwriter_delay: 10ms
+            bgwriter_lru_maxpages: 100000
+            # synchronous_commit: "off"
   # TimescaleDB PVC sizes
   persistentVolumes:
     data: