---
audience: developer
components:
  - serving
function: reference
---

# Targets

Configuring a target provide the Autoscaler with a value that it tries to maintain for the configured metric for a revision.
See the [metrics](autoscaling-metrics.md) documentation for more information about configurable metric types.

The `target` annotation, used to configure per-revision targets,  is _metric agnostic_. This means the target is simply an integer value, which can be applied for any metric type.

## Configuring targets

* **Global settings key:** `container-concurrency-target-default`. For more information, see the documentation on [metrics](autoscaling-metrics.md).
* **Per-revision annotation key:** `autoscaling.knative.dev/target`
* **Possible values:** An integer (metric agnostic).
* **Default:** `"100"` for `container-concurrency-target-default`. There is no default value set for the `target` annotation.


=== "Target annotation - Per-revision"
    ```yaml
    apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: helloworld-go
      namespace: default
    spec:
      template:
        metadata:
          annotations:
            autoscaling.knative.dev/target: "50"
    ```

=== "Concurrency target - Global (ConfigMap)"
    ```yaml
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
     name: config-autoscaler
     namespace: knative-serving
    data:
     container-concurrency-target-default: "200"
    ```

=== "Concurrency target - Container Global (Operator)"
    ```yaml
    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: KnativeServing
    metadata:
      name: knative-serving
    spec:
      config:
        autoscaler:
          container-concurrency-target-default: "200"
    ```
