topic Re: Display min and max pods in classic dashboard in Dashboarding

Display min and max pods in classic dashboard

Prasad_K — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:41:32 GMT

Hello

There is a requirement where the customer wants to plot the minimum and max pods allocated to workload. I have used the desired pod count metric and pod metric too and even used the aggeregation but it is not reflecting the correct value as the value of min and max is static.

Thanks in advance

Re: Display min and max pods in classic dashboard

michiel_otten — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:10:24 GMT

Hi Prasad,

The Desired pod count metric usually reflects the number of pods Kubernetes wants to run (from the deployment/replica set), not the actual number. The min and max just give you the highest and lowest number of running pods at a certain period of time. This can be lower or higher f.e. during updating or maintenance.

What would be the customer requirement here? What question would they want answered?

KR.
Michiel

Re: Display min and max pods in classic dashboard

Prasad_K — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:34:00 GMT

Hi Michiel

The customer has OCP where they have defined min and max pods configured for all workloads. They want to see the same in classic dashboard.

Is there a way we can capture this and display?

Re: Display min and max pods in classic dashboard

michiel_otten — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:11:58 GMT

According to this article, not yet
Solved: Are HPA configurations captured with out of the box metrics - Dynatrace Community

Although I see something is available in the Object State API. So if it is needed you could potentially create an extension already.

Re: Display min and max pods in classic dashboard

Prasad_K — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:05:58 GMT

Thanks Michiel. I will look into this.