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k8s-autoscaling-troubleshooting from k8s-servant/k8s-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-autoscaling-troubleshooting@git:20261025.f355daePins git:20261025.f355dae in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- k8s-servant/k8s-skills
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- Apache-2.0
Use when Kubernetes autoscaling does not scale as expected: a HorizontalPodAutoscaler whose TARGETS show "<unknown>", "missing request for cpu", "unable to get metrics for resource cpu" or "FailedGetResourceMetric", an HPA stuck at maxReplicas ("TooManyReplicas") or not scaling down, "Metrics API not available" from kubectl top, metrics-server not Ready, a KEDA ScaledObject that is not Ready ("ScaledObjectCheckFailed") or creates no HPA, KEDA scalers failing, two autoscalers on one workload…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Autoscaling troubleshooting Find out why a workload does not scale the way it should, and propose a fix. **Read first, ask before changing.** Run the investigation commands freely. Run a command under an "Ask first" line only after the user approves that exact command; if your credentials do not allow it, give it to the user to run. Never run a "Proposed fix"; hand it to the user. A **HorizontalPodAutoscaler** (HPA) sets the replica count of a Deployment or StatefulSet every 15 seconds from metrics: CPU and memory from **metrics-server** (`metrics.k8s.io`), or custom and external metrics from an adapter. **KEDA** turns a **ScaledObject** into an HPA named `keda-hpa-<name>` and serves its triggers as external metrics (`external.metrics.k8s.io`). A **VerticalPodAutoscaler** (VPA) changes requests instead of replicas. The HPA writes what it decided, and why, into three status conditions (AbleToScale, ScalingActive, ScalingLimited) and its events, so they usually name the cause. The commands use placeholders: `my-namespace`, `my-app` (the workload, its HPA and its ScaledObject). Replace them with the real names. The built-in `view` role can read HPAs …
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How to install
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-autoscaling-troubleshooting@sha256:262b0f2be454975cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.f355dae, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
k8s-servant/k8s-skills · 35 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
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