# How to scale your systems using CPU utilization

DevFeed: [How to scale your systems using CPU utilization](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-scale-your-systems-using-cpu-utilization-11632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/how-to-scale-your-systems-based-on-cpu-utilization>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-computing.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to scale systems based on CPU utilization. It covers CPU-based autoscaling, threshold selection, handling demand spikes, scaling horizontally or vertically, validating rules, and deploying them confidently to production.

## Source excerpt

Scaling on CPU usage is a fundamental practice in cloud computing. Learn why CPU-based scaling is so important, how to set CPU scaling thresholds, and how to validate those thresholds using Gremlin.