Autoscale from metrics

[wjordan]

Yes, we hear you on this, I think the use case you described is very clear. Autoscaling based on prometheus metrics is something we’d like to eventually support in the platform.

@goncalo-oliveira

It seems the only way to do something near this is to write a worker app that periodically checks these conditions and uses machines api to scale up or down, though, this seems like a lot of trouble.

Yeah, that’s the current do-it-yourself approach that works today. It’s not ideal, but if you want to go this direction here’s a pointer to a Bash-script example of this that could help you get started:

Autoscaling on CPU utilization?

Hi @akutruff, it’s probably not what you’d like or ideally want but here’s an basic example of what you could do to scale based on CPU: #!/bin/bash ​ if [ -z $FLY_API_TOKEN ]; then echo "missing required FLY_API_TOKEN environment variable" exit 1 fi ​ api_base=https://api.machines.dev ​ while getopts a:c: flag do case "${flag}" in a) app_name=${OPTARG};; c) cpu_threshold=${OPTARG};; \?) # Invalid option echo "Error: Invalid option" echo "usa…