# How to enable autoscaling?

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/how-to-enable-autoscaling/5073>\
**Category:** Questions / Help\
**Tags:** elixir\
**Created:** [May 9, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/how-to-enable-autoscaling/5073 "2022-05-09T15:28:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![eli](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/eli/32/49867_2.png) [@eli](https://community.fly.io/u/eli)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/how-to-enable-autoscaling/5073/2 "2022-05-09T20:59:25Z")

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This all looks correct to me (and thank you for detailing the work you’ve done so far). Would you mind confirming a few things?

Specifically:

- The output of `fly autoscale status`; this will show us what flyctl thinks the autoscale settings currently are

- The output of `fly releases` ; this will confirm that the app’s config was definitely updated.

- the specific flags/values that you’re using with `burn`. As you’re likely aware, [autoscaling decisions are made based on a few minutes’ worth of traffic](https://community.fly.io/t/autoscale-doesnt-seem-to-launch-new-instances/2559/3) – so it’s useful to know exactly how long you’re running your tests for.

- as much as your fly.toml as you’re comfortable sharing, to get a better idea of how your app is configured to receive traffic. On a related note, you [might try the setting](https://community.fly.io/t/recommended-services-concurrency-settings-for-elixir-phoenix-apps/3029/2) `type ="requests"` for your `[services.concurrency]` block.

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