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title: "Enable Pod rightsizing"
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updated: 2026-08-30T11:00:23Z
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# Enable Pod rightsizing

This topic describes how to enable the Pod rightsizing capability of the Multi-dimensional autoscaling solution. When you enable Pod rightsizing, you are also enabling the Replica optimization capability.

Before the Pod rightsizing capability is enabled, you cannot apply it nor Replica optimization capability to a workload. If this is the case, a message is displayed in the Multi-dimensional autoscaling recommendation drawer (“drawer”).

**Prerequisites**

- The Insights agent is installed.

For more information, see [Install Kubernetes resource optimization components](/v1/docs/install-kubernetes-resource-optimization-components).

**To enable Pod rightsizing:**

1. From the **Multi-dimensional autoscaling** drawer, click **Enable Pod rightsizing**. (To open the drawer, see [Apply MDA optimization with the UI](/v1/docs/apply-mda-optimization-with-the-ui).)

The **Enable Pod rightsizing** dialog is displayed.
2. Copy the displayed code and add it to the Kompass **values.yaml** file created during the Insights agent installation.
3. Save **values.yaml**
4. In the **Enable Pod rightsizing** dialog, click **Values.yaml is updated**.

An in-progress confirmation message is displayed in the drawer.

After about an hour, return to the drawer. The Pod rightsizing and Replica optimization capabilities are enabled and can be applied to workloads on the cluster.