diff --git a/config/observability/kustomization.yaml b/config/observability/kustomization.yaml
index f9b64ec..78811cc 100644
--- a/config/observability/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/observability/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,37 @@
 resources:
+  - ./metrics-server
   - github.com/kuadrant/kuadrant-operator/config/observability?ref=main
   - ./thanos
   - github.com/kuadrant/kuadrant-operator/examples/dashboards?ref=main
   - github.com/kuadrant/kuadrant-operator/examples/alerts?ref=main
 
 patches:
-  - target:
+  - patch: |
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+      kind: ServiceMonitor
+      metadata:
+        name: authorino-operator-metrics
+        namespace: kuadrant-system
+  - patch: |
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
       kind: ServiceMonitor
-    patch: |
+      metadata:
+        name: dns-operator-metrics-monitor
+        namespace: kuadrant-system
+  - patch: |
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+      kind: ServiceMonitor
+      metadata:
+        name: kuadrant-operator-metrics
+        namespace: kuadrant-system
+  - patch: |
       $patch: delete
       apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
       kind: ServiceMonitor
       metadata:
-        name: ANY
+        name: limitador-operator-metrics
+        namespace: kuadrant-system
   - path: k8s_prometheus_patch.yaml
diff --git a/config/observability/metrics-server/kustomization.yaml b/config/observability/metrics-server/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67d5364
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/observability/metrics-server/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+resources:
+  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/download/v0.7.1/components.yaml
+patches:
+  - patch: |-
+      - op: add
+        path: /spec/template/spec/containers/0/args/-
+        value: --kubelet-insecure-tls
+    target:
+      version: v1
+      kind: Deployment
+      name: metrics-server
+      namespace: kube-system
+  - patch: |
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
+      kind: APIService
+      metadata:
+        name: v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io
+  - patch: |
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+      kind: ClusterRole
+      metadata:
+        name: system:aggregated-metrics-reader
diff --git a/test/scale/README.md b/test/scale/README.md
index cb79a2a..87903af 100644
--- a/test/scale/README.md
+++ b/test/scale/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
+## Setup local environment (kind)
+
 Create a kind cluster with prometheus/thanos installed and configured
 ```shell
 make local-setup
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@ Forward port for prometheus
 kubectl -n monitoring port-forward service/thanos-query 9090:9090
 ```
 
-Forward port for graphana (Optional)
+Forward port for grafana (Optional)
 ```shell
 kubectl -n monitoring port-forward service/grafana 3000:3000
 ```
@@ -22,7 +24,43 @@ Tail all operator logs (Optional)
 kubectl stern -l control-plane=dns-operator-controller-manager -A
 ```
 
-Run default scale test(1 iteration using the inmemory provider)
+## Run scale test
+
+Export Environment variables:
+```shell
+#All
+export PROMETHEUS_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9090 
+export PROMETHEUS_TOKEN=""
+#AWS
+export KUADRANT_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<my aws access key id>
+export KUADRANT_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<my aws secret access key>
+export KUADRANT_AWS_REGION=""
+#GCP
+export KUADRANT_GCP_GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS=<my gcp credentals json>
+export KUADRANT_GCP_PROJECT_ID=<my gcp project id>
+#Azure
+export KUADRANT_AZURE_CREDENTIALS=<my azure credentials json>
+```
+
+### inmemory
+
+```shell
+make test-scale
+```
+### aws
+
+```shell
+make test-scale DNS_PROVIDER=aws KUADRANT_ZONE_ROOT_DOMAIN=<my aws hosted domain>
+```
+
+### gcp
+
 ```shell
-PROMETHEUS_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9090 PROMETHEUS_TOKEN="" make test-scale
+make test-scale DNS_PROVIDER=gcp KUADRANT_ZONE_ROOT_DOMAIN=<my gcp hosted domain>
 ```
+
+### azure
+
+```shell
+make test-scale DNS_PROVIDER=azure KUADRANT_ZONE_ROOT_DOMAIN=<my azure hosted domain>
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/scale/alerts.yaml b/test/scale/alerts.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdf916b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/scale/alerts.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+- expr: increase(kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total{container="manager", namespace=~"kuadrant-system|kuadrant-dns-operator-.*"}[5m]) > 0
+  description: manager pod restarts
+  severity: error
diff --git a/test/scale/config.yaml b/test/scale/config.yaml
index 6d15eb1..08447fd 100644
--- a/test/scale/config.yaml
+++ b/test/scale/config.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ metricsEndpoints:
     token: {{ .PROMETHEUS_TOKEN }}
     metrics:
       - ./metrics.yaml
+    alerts:
+      - ./alerts.yaml
     indexer:
       type: local
       metricsDirectory: ./metrics
diff --git a/test/scale/metrics.yaml b/test/scale/metrics.yaml
index 8a491f9..9673883 100644
--- a/test/scale/metrics.yaml
+++ b/test/scale/metrics.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 - query: sum(rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{container="",namespace=~"kuadrant-system|kuadrant-dns-operator-*|scale-test-.*"}[5m])) by(namespace)
   metricName: namespaceCPU
+
+- query: sum(rate(kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total{container="manager", namespace=~"kuadrant-system|kuadrant-dns-operator-.*"}[5m])) by(namespace)
+  metricName: managerPodRestarts