diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/config/config.yaml b/asap-tools/experiments/config/config.yaml
index 7b697450..0c6d5ef6 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/config/config.yaml
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/config/config.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ streaming:
 # Prometheus configuration
 prometheus:
   # Global Prometheus settings
-  scrape_interval: "10s"  # How frequently to scrape targets
+  scrape_interval: "1s"  # How frequently to scrape targets
   evaluation_interval: "10s"  # How frequently to evaluate rules
   # query_log_file: "/scratch/sketch_db_for_prometheus/prometheus/queries.log"  # Disabled to avoid permission issues in Docker
   # Recording rules settings
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_only_ingest_path.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_only_ingest_path.py
index 942e72fc..a7c16dc7 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_only_ingest_path.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_only_ingest_path.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import constants
 import experiment_utils
 from experiment_utils import sync, config
-from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 from experiment_utils.services import (
     KafkaService,
     ExporterServiceFactory,
@@ -74,11 +73,9 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
     is_v2 = experiment_mode == constants.SKETCHDB_EXPERIMENT_NAME
 
     # Convert config to args-like object for backward compatibility
+    # (also constructs the infrastructure provider, exposed as args.provider)
     args = config.Args(cfg)
-
-    # Create infrastructure provider
-    provider = create_provider(cfg)
-    args.remote_write_ip = provider.get_node_ip(args.node_offset)
+    provider = args.provider
 
     local_experiment_root_dir = os.path.join(
         constants.LOCAL_EXPERIMENT_DIR, args.experiment_name
@@ -91,7 +88,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
 
     # Also dump args to a file for backward compatibility
     with open(os.path.join(local_experiment_root_dir, "cmdline_args.txt"), "w") as f:
-        json.dump(vars(args), f)
+        json.dump(args.to_dict(), f)
 
     experiment_root_output_dir = (
         f"{constants.CLOUDLAB_HOME_DIR}/experiment_outputs/{args.experiment_name}"
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_e2e.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_e2e.py
index 6edbf074..ce9ccba3 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_e2e.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_e2e.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import constants
 import experiment_utils
 from experiment_utils import sync, config
-from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 from experiment_utils.services import (
     KafkaService,
     FlinkService,
@@ -55,12 +54,10 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
     # Validate experiment configuration
     config.validate_experiment_config(cfg.experiment_params)
 
-    # Create infrastructure provider
-    provider = create_provider(cfg)
-
     # Convert config to args-like object for backward compatibility
+    # (also constructs the infrastructure provider, exposed as args.provider)
     args = config.Args(cfg)
-    args.remote_write_ip = provider.get_node_ip(args.node_offset)
+    provider = args.provider
 
     if provider.is_remote():
         local_experiment_root_dir = os.path.join(
@@ -85,7 +82,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
 
     # Also dump args to a file for backward compatibility
     with open(os.path.join(local_experiment_root_dir, "cmdline_args.txt"), "w") as f:
-        json.dump(vars(args), f)
+        json.dump(args.to_dict(), f)
 
     global CONTROLLER_REMOTE_OUTPUT_DIR, CONTROLLER_LOCAL_OUTPUT_DIR
     CONTROLLER_LOCAL_OUTPUT_DIR = os.path.join(
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_exporters_and_prometheus.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_exporters_and_prometheus.py
index ba11bab3..414d7da7 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_exporters_and_prometheus.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_exporters_and_prometheus.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import constants
 import experiment_utils
 from experiment_utils import sync, config
-from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 from experiment_utils.services import (
     ExporterServiceFactory,
     SystemExportersService,
@@ -30,10 +29,9 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
     # Validate experiment configuration
     config.validate_experiment_config(cfg.experiment_params)
     # Convert config to args-like object for backward compatibility
+    # (also constructs the infrastructure provider, exposed as args.provider)
     args = config.Args(cfg)
-
-    # Create infrastructure provider
-    provider = create_provider(cfg)
+    provider = args.provider
 
     local_experiment_root_dir = os.path.join(
         constants.LOCAL_EXPERIMENT_DIR, args.experiment_name
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
 
     # Also dump args to a file for backward compatibility
     with open(os.path.join(local_experiment_root_dir, "cmdline_args.txt"), "w") as f:
-        json.dump(vars(args), f)
+        json.dump(args.to_dict(), f)
 
     experiment_root_output_dir = (
         f"{constants.CLOUDLAB_HOME_DIR}/experiment_outputs/{args.experiment_name}"
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_grafana_demo.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_grafana_demo.py
index b7383bad..d7e98b48 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_grafana_demo.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_run_grafana_demo.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import constants
 import experiment_utils
 from experiment_utils import sync, config
-from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 from experiment_utils.services import (
     KafkaService,
     QueryEngineRustService,
@@ -51,11 +50,9 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
     # Validate experiment configuration
     config.validate_experiment_config(cfg.experiment_params)
     # Convert config to args-like object for backward compatibility
+    # (also constructs the infrastructure provider, exposed as args.provider)
     args = config.Args(cfg)
-
-    # Create infrastructure provider
-    provider = create_provider(cfg)
-    args.remote_write_ip = provider.get_node_ip(args.node_offset)
+    provider = args.provider
 
     args.forward_unsupported_queries = True
     print("Forcing forward_unsupported_queries to True for Grafana demo")
@@ -71,7 +68,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
 
     # Also dump args to a file for backward compatibility
     with open(os.path.join(local_experiment_root_dir, "cmdline_args.txt"), "w") as f:
-        json.dump(vars(args), f)
+        json.dump(args.to_dict(), f)
 
     experiment_root_output_dir = (
         f"{constants.CLOUDLAB_HOME_DIR}/experiment_outputs/{args.experiment_name}"
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_teardown_everything.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_teardown_everything.py
index 534fbd39..c14276f1 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_teardown_everything.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_teardown_everything.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 import constants
 from experiment_utils import config
-from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 from experiment_utils.services import (
     KafkaService,
     FlinkService,
@@ -55,9 +54,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig):
     # Validate configuration (minimal validation for provider setup)
     config.validate_config(cfg)
     args = config.Args(cfg)
-
-    # Create infrastructure provider
-    provider = create_provider(cfg)
+    provider = args.provider
 
     num_nodes_in_experiment = args.num_nodes
 
diff --git a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_utils/config.py b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_utils/config.py
index 64bcba49..891f1596 100644
--- a/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_utils/config.py
+++ b/asap-tools/experiments/experiment_utils/config.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from omegaconf import DictConfig, ListConfig, OmegaConf
 
 import constants
+from experiment_utils.providers.factory import create_provider
 
 
 def validate_basic_config(
@@ -532,6 +533,19 @@ def __init__(self, cfg: DictConfig):
             self.cloudlab_username = cfg.providers.cloudlab.username
             self.hostname_suffix = cfg.providers.cloudlab.hostname_suffix
 
+        # Single source of truth for the infrastructure provider: build it here
+        # (from cfg alone) so every node-dependent value derived from it —
+        # remote_write_ip included — is computed in exactly one place instead
+        # of being re-derived (and potentially forgotten) in each script.
+        self.provider = create_provider(cfg)
+
+        # Remote write IP (127.0.0.1 for local mode, CloudLab's 10.10.1.x
+        # scheme otherwise). Written back onto cfg.streaming.remote_write.ip
+        # too, since generate_prometheus_config reads it from cfg directly
+        # rather than through this Args object.
+        self.remote_write_ip = self.provider.get_node_ip(self.node_offset)
+        cfg.streaming.remote_write.ip = self.remote_write_ip
+
         # Logging and debugging
         self.log_level = cfg.logging.level
 
@@ -565,10 +579,8 @@ def __init__(self, cfg: DictConfig):
         self.do_local_flink = cfg.streaming.do_local_flink
         self.forward_unsupported_queries = cfg.streaming.forward_unsupported_queries
         self.use_kafka_ingest = cfg.streaming.use_kafka_ingest
-        # Remote write configuration
-        self.remote_write_ip = (
-            None  # set by caller: provider.get_node_ip(self.node_offset)
-        )
+        # Remote write configuration (self.remote_write_ip set above, near
+        # provider construction)
         self.remote_write_base_port = cfg.streaming.remote_write.base_port
         self.remote_write_path = cfg.streaming.remote_write.path
 
@@ -624,6 +636,15 @@ def get_coordinator_node(self) -> int:
         """Get the coordinator node index (first node in the range)."""
         return self.node_offset
 
+    def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """JSON-serializable snapshot of this Args instance.
+
+        `provider` holds a live InfrastructureProvider object, so it's
+        swapped for its repr() (e.g. "CloudLabProvider(username='...', ...)")
+        rather than dropped.
+        """
+        return {k: (repr(v) if k == "provider" else v) for k, v in vars(self).items()}
+
 
 def validate_config(cfg: DictConfig, script_name: str = "experiment_run_e2e"):
     """