Retrospective: How We Survived a Kubernetes 1.36 HPA Outage on EKS with KEDA and Prometheus

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Learn how to survive a Kubernetes HPA outage on EKS with KEDA and Prometheus, and apply these strategies to your own cluster

advanced Published 28 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Monitor your Kubernetes cluster's HPA metrics using Prometheus
  2. Configure KEDA to scale your deployments based on custom metrics
  3. Implement a fallback strategy for HPA outages using KEDA's scaling rules
  4. Test your cluster's scaling configuration to ensure it can handle outages
  5. Analyze your cluster's metrics to identify potential issues before they occur
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps and SRE teams can benefit from this article to improve their cluster's reliability and uptime, especially those using EKS and Kubernetes

Key Insight

💡 Using KEDA and Prometheus can help you survive a Kubernetes HPA outage by providing a fallback strategy and custom scaling rules

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