Scale your own way, using HPA with built-in support for PromQL metrics queries in GKE

From the source: Google Cloud Blog

Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone allowed you to scrap external adapters and instead collect autoscaling metrics directly from your pods. By routing these metrics straight to the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), we cut metrics reading latency down to 5 seconds. Today, we are excited to introduce built-in support for…

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Originally published by Google Cloud Blog on 24 Sept 2026. Techarda links to the original rather than republishing it. Read the full article →

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