Autonomous Mode Checklist
- Ensure Thoras installation is production-ready - run through the production readiness checklist to ensure optimal platform and model performance.
- Check predictions in the dashboard - confirm metric suggestions for your workload are accurate. The Thoras reasoning engine typically needs to see a pattern twice to learn about it; so model performance can take between a few minutes to a few days to reach maximum accuracy.

- Understand application behavior - for vertical scaling, ensure the workload and its dependencies can handle periodic restarts. See the vertical pod rightsizing and aiscaletarget pages for an overview of scaling and restart configuration options.
- Review pod resource limits - see vertical scaling config breakdown for details on how to factor in pod resource limits to your vertical scaling behavior.
- Start small - test on a non-critical workload first.
- Ensure observability and alerts are in place - have monitoring dashboards and alerts ready so you can spot unexpected performance impacts quickly.