# Configure Kubernetes HPA with meaningful metrics

Canonical source : [Configure Kubernetes HPA with meaningful metrics](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/links/configure-kubernetes-hpa-with-meaningful-metrics>)

This guide explains HPA behavior and the use of custom metrics to adjust replicas. It connects metric selection and resource limits to practical scaling behavior.

- Selected on : 2023-07-27

- Resource publication : 2023-03-18

- Entry updated : 2026-10-14T07:00:28+0000

- Format : Article

- Source language : EN

- Credit : Caio Barbieri

Original resource : [Configure Kubernetes HPA with meaningful metrics](<https://caiolombello.medium.com/kubernetes-hpa-custom-metrics-for-effective-cpu-memory-scaling-23526bba9b4>)

Tags : [Kubernetes](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/kubernetes>) · [Observability](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/observability>)

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