# Scaling Target Too High | ZopNight

> The target is set so high that capacity is only added once the workload is already saturated, so scaling arrives after users have felt it.

Source: https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/scaling-target-too-high

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_Compliance · High severity_

## Scaling Target Too High

The target is set so high that capacity is only added once the workload is already saturated, so scaling arrives after users have felt it.

- Azure — provider
- High — severity
- Compliance — where it shows up
- Manual — fix, steps written out

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## Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

- 01. Detect — ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.
- 02. Explain — Every finding says exactly what to change: Lower the autoscale target threshold.
- 03. Fix — The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

- applies_to_fallback: Any resource in the account
- where_it_appears: The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.

## Related

- [Scaling Cooldown Too Short](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/scaling-cooldown-too-short)
- [VMSS Autoscale Setting Not Configured](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/vmss-autoscale-setting-not-configured)
- [Scaling Target Too Low](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/scaling-target-too-low)
- [Idle Azure VM Scale Set](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/idle-azure-vm-scale-set)
- [ACM Certificate Expiring Soon](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/acm-certificate-expiring-soon)
- [AKS Cluster RBAC Not Enabled](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/aks-cluster-rbac-not-enabled)

## See the compliance findings in your account.

Connect a read-only role and the first pass runs on your own estate. This check, and the rest of the catalogue, with it.

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