How to check what nodes were scaled up?

arturCh — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:49:59 GMT

In our capability we have a k8s cluster used by 3 teams (Token Service, Identity Center and PacMan/IAM).

in last two days, we noticed unusual activity by intensive scaling up nodes, so I would like to know what pods/nodes were added-scaled up.

Briefly checked on AWS console that it was not IAM. Then, wanted to check if that was Identity Center or Token Services pods. However, I am totally lost on the new UI and do not see how can I easily figure it out. Using classic-ones, it was more intuitive for me. Could you share a best-practice/path/route - how to check from new dashboard -> through new k8s app, what was scaled up and when/why?

Re: How to check what nodes were scaled up?

gopher — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:28:19 GMT

Good luck - I don't think you will easily find it in the new UI. you would need to build a custom dashboard and or notebook to see this.

easiest and quickest is to go old school (logs classic), check your Kubernetes events for the following
content "pod triggered scale-up"
and if you want to see what node came up, then set the Kubernetes events, k8s.namespace.name: 'kube-system', content" 'scale-up'

Thanks

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How to check what nodes were scaled up?

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