# How to check what nodes were scaled up?

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**Created:** [July 11, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-check-what-nodes-were-scaled-up/52444 "2025-07-11T07:48:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![arturCh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/arturch/32/38632_2.png) [@arturCh](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/arturCh)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-check-what-nodes-were-scaled-up/52444/1 "2025-07-11T07:48:43Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![gopher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/gopher/32/5728_2.png) [@gopher](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gopher)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-check-what-nodes-were-scaled-up/52444/2 "2025-07-15T22:28:19Z")

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

Thanks