Admission-controller E0320 Failed to get parent controller for pod alloy-receiver

[ceastman-r7]

Which component are you using?:
vertical-pod-autoscaler-chart-0.8.1

/area vertical-pod-autoscaler

What version of the component are you using?:
0.8.1

Component version:

What k8s version are you using (kubectl version)?: EKS 1.33

kubectl version Output

$ kubectl version

What environment is this in?:
AWS EKS

What did you expect to happen?:
To not receive errors

What happened instead?:

Received the following error logs: for various grafana alloy components

k8s-vpa-admission-controller-7f7c55b6c9-ntplj admission-controller E0320 18:09:49.494195 1 matcher.go:57] "Failed to get parent controller for pod" err="unhandled targetRef collectors.grafana.com/v1alpha1 / Alloy / gkm-alloy-metrics, last error alloys.collectors.grafana.com "gkm-alloy-metrics" is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:platform-delivery:k8s-vpa-admission-controller" cannot get resource "alloys/scale" in API group "collectors.grafana.com" in the namespace "platform-delivery"" pod="platform-delivery/gkm-alloy-metrics-0"

We use https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm version 3 to deploy Grafana alloy to our kubernetes clusters

[iamzili]

Hey! Could you please provide the full Helm command you used to deploy Grafana Alloy to your k8s cluster? Also I would need the full VerticalPodAutoscaler object as well (even the status stanza) in YAML.

I suspect your issue has already been reported here: #9072