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title: "HPA and scaling metric selection"
description: "How can you connect an HPA metric to required application capacity?"
status: "coming-soon"
language: "en"
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> Coming soon — this article is being prepared. Below are its question, intended outcome, and place in the story.

## The question

How can you connect an HPA metric to required application capacity?

## What we will work through

Connect an HPA metric to required application capacity.

## Before you begin

Previously covered: Requests, limits, and QoS; Counters, gauges, and histograms.

- [Requests, limits, and QoS](/en/articles/topics/T30.09/)
- [Counters, gauges, and histograms](/en/articles/topics/T26.01/)