Scale a Render service: set manual instance count or configure autoscaling via API

domain: render.com · 3 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-cloud-r0722
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Documented steps

  1. Auth: `Authorization: Bearer <API key>` (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/authentication).
  2. Manual scale: POST https://api.render.com/v1/services/{serviceId}/scale with body {"numInstances": <int>} — 202 = accepted (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/scale-service).
  3. Autoscaling: PUT https://api.render.com/v1/services/{serviceId}/autoscaling with body {enabled (bool), min (int), max (int), criteria (object with scaling thresholds, e.g. CPU/memory targets)} — all required; 200 = updated (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/autoscale-service).

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