Question

Is it possible to autoscale containers in App Platform by RAM usage?

Posted on October 4, 2024
DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by smalpas

I have a django application that uses a lot of geo-referenced data, because of the large number of fairly heavy libraries we use (looking at you numpy and GDAL) we find a lot of the requests tend to deal with large amounts of data in a database, but don’t overly stress the CPU. We often get to memory limits and would like to be able to scale up containers, and therefore workers when a certain RAM load is reached. I know this is possible in kubernetes, but can’t find the option in the the app platform abstraction.

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• October 4, 2024

Hey @smalpas,

At the moment you can only configure auto-scaling based on the average CPU usage across all of the app’s containers:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/scale-app/#auto-scale

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.