# Elasticsearch on Kubernetes - Auto scale

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-kubernetes-auto-scale/322539>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [January 5, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-kubernetes-auto-scale/322539 "2023-01-05T11:24:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Itay\_Bittan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/itay_bittan/32/23527_2.png) [@Itay\_Bittan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Itay_Bittan)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-kubernetes-auto-scale/322539/1 "2023-01-05T11:24:11Z")

</div>

Hi,

We are upgrading our Elasticsearch clusters to work on top of EKS and we want to use [autoscaling](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-autoscaling.html#ec-autoscaling-intro).

We wonder if/when you'll support the autoscaling based on memory or CPU, and if there's a plan to dynamically add/remove replicas for overloaded shards/indices (in term of number of requests).

Thanks,  
Itay

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Thibault\_Richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thibault_richard/32/50513_2.png) [@Thibault\_Richard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibault_Richard)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-kubernetes-auto-scale/322539/2 "2023-01-09T11:02:42Z")

</div>

Hi,

ECK can already leverage the [Elasticsearch autoscaling feature](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.5/xpack-autoscaling.html) to adjust automatically the number of Pods and the allocated resources (see the documentation [Elasticsearch autoscaling | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [2.5] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-autoscaling.html)).

I'm not aware of a plan to dynamically add/remove replicas for overloaded shards/indices. [Elastic Stack - Discuss the Elastic Stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elastic-stack/81) would be the right place to ask.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-kubernetes-auto-scale/322539/3 "2023-02-06T11:03:04Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.