Troubleshooting

This page explains some of the common issues people may experience.

Autoscaler is Forbidden From Managing Custom Resources

You may encounter an error like this:

E0214 11:30:09.556332 1 main.go:266] Error while autoscaling: failed to get managed resource: logstashes.logstash.k8s.elastic.co "quickstart" is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:default:python-custom-autoscaler" cannot get resource "logstashes" in API group "logstash.k8s.elastic.co" in the namespace "default"

And see that your autoscaler is not scaling the target resource if you are targeting a custom resource.

This is because your autoscaler does not have the correct permissions to manage the resource you are targeting.

See the Custom Resources page for details on how to resolve this.