There is no metric "scaled up nodes total" in AKS cluster autoscaler

Question

I deploy an AKS cluster with enabled cluster autoscaler and use Azure Managed Grafana to monitor some metrics of cluster autoscaler, such as: Is cluster safe to scale, total nodes, number of unneeded nodes, number of scaled up nodes.

In this cluster, I already enabled log insights and diagnostic.

I use AzureMetrics in Logs query in AKS cluster to get metrics of cluster autoscaler

AzureMetrics

However, AzureMetrics only supports 4 cluster autoscaler metrics (refer to attached file) and does not support metric "scaled up nodes total".

How I can query metric "scaled up nodes total" in AKS cluster?

Answer 1

Hi @nguyen xuan hai

Thanks for reaching Microsoft Q&A.

Regarding your question maybe you are looking for this link. However, for AKS we don't have yet those metrics. Only those 4 mentioned by you above. If you would this feature, please raise here your question and our internal team can analysis in case have many votes.

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