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Cloud engineers reviewing a dashboard where CPU looks healthy while backlog, latency, and service pressure are rising.

CPU Is the Wrong Signal for Most Autoscaling Policies

64% of organisations use the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to manage workload capacity, and most of those autoscaling policies scale on exactly one signal: CPU or memory utilisation. Only 20% scale on anything else. The other 80% inherited a default…