This is a tracking issue of a bug for which a workaround has been implemented in number of places for this time until its resolved globally.

What happens

ScaledObject is sometimes not cached correctly -> for example the metrics are an empty list or the .Status.ScaleTargetGVKR is nil

Workaround

A workaround has been implemented in a number of places. See below.

• pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go in func (h *scaleHandler) getTrueMetricArray()
• pkg/scaling/resolver/scale_resolvers.go in func ResolveScaleTargetPodSpec()

Other info

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/kind bug