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Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling powered by an OpenTelemetry-native tool


This blog post shows how to use Dash0 as the source of truth to automatically scale applications running on Kubernetes.

This very line of thought, prioritizing the user experience over technical details like resource utilization, is actually at the core of best practices around Service Level Indicators (SLIs). After you have done the setup described in this repository to deploy the Prometheus Adapter and configure it to query Dash0, to scale up or down your application based on the amount of requests is as easy as creating the following two Kubernetes resources: The Services query builder in Dash0 allows you to specify complex metrics for Resource, Errors and Duration (RED) use cases based on your tracing data, without any PromQL expertise.

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