Issue with Linkerd metrics not reflecting increased requests for scaling

[ermiaqasemi]

Hello Linkerd team!

I'm encountering an issue related to scaling based on Linkerd metrics. Currently, I have a service running on port 443 (HTTP2) and I'm looking to scale it dynamically based on incoming requests. My understanding is that the request_total metric should provide the necessary information. However, it seems that this metric is not working as expected in our environment. It consistently returns the same number, regardless of the actual number of requests.

I would greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. Is there an alternative metric or configuration that I should consider? We are running Linkerd version:

• Client version: stable-2.13.3
• Server version: stable-2.13.3