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+title = "Why does Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.16 fail to fetch external metrics?"
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+
+If you are running Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) version 1.16, and are receiving the following error:
+
+```
+unable to fetch metrics from external metrics API: <METRIC>.external.metrics.k8s.io is forbidden: User "system:vpa-recommender" cannot list resource "<METRIC>" in API group "external.metrics.k8s.io" in the namespace "<NAMESPACE>": RBAC: clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "external-metrics-reader" not found
+```
+
+You are almost certainly running into a [known issue](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/160597676). 
+
+The workaround is to recreate the `external-metrics-reader` role using the following YAML:
+
+```
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+kind: ClusterRole
+metadata:
+  name: external-metrics-reader
+rules:
+- apiGroups:
+  - "external.metrics.k8s.io"
+  resources:
+  - "*"
+  verbs:
+  - list
+  - get
+  - watch
+```
+
+The GKE team is currently working on a fix that they expect to have out in version >= 1.16.13.