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Reliability · Low severity

Autoscaler Pinned at One Size

The autoscaler cannot change the replica count at all, so the workload neither absorbs a spike nor gives capacity back.

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3clouds covered
Lowseverity
Riskwhere it shows up
Manualfix, change spelled out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetes

Found, explained, handed over.

Exposure and fragility, security posture and single points of failure.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Widen the autoscaler's replica range.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the change already spelled out, so the fix is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
EKS Horizontal Pod Autoscalers on AWS, AKS Horizontal Pod Autoscalers on Azure, GKE Horizontal Pod Autoscalers on Google Cloud
Category
Reliability. Production-shape issues that cause incidents and rework: single replicas, missing requests and limits, missing probes.
Where it appears
The Risk tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule IDs
RC-1744 RC-1844 RC-1944

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