Customer is running a operator-managed Quay instance without Clair or Quay Mirror. However, the corresponding HorizontalPodAutoscalers are still created. As they do not contain any associated pods, customer regularly get warning events that are "false positives" and should not be created.

$ oc get hpa -n my-quay
NAME                   REFERENCE                      TARGETS                        MINPODS   MAXPODS   REPLICAS   AGE 
registry-clair-app     Deployment/clair-app           <unknown>/90%, <unknown>/90%   2         10        0          116d
registry-quay-app      Deployment/registry-quay-app   46%/90%, 1%/90%                2         20        2          116d
registry-quay-mirror   Deployment/quay-mirror         <unknown>/90%, <unknown>/90%   2         20        0          116d

$ oc get events -n magic-plat-quay
LAST SEEN   TYPE      REASON                      OBJECT                                         MESSAGE
75s         Normal    Valid                       secretstore/magic-plat-quay                    store validated
23s         Warning   FailedGetScale              horizontalpodautoscaler/registry-clair-app     deployments/scale.apps "clair-app" not found
47m         Normal    Updated                     externalsecret/registry-quay-config-bundle     Updated Secret
23s         Warning   FailedGetScale              horizontalpodautoscaler/registry-quay-mirror   deployments/scale.apps "quay-mirror" not found
2m5s        Normal    ComponentsCreationSuccess   quayregistry/registry                          All objects created/updated successfully

$ oc get quayregistry -n my-quay -o yaml

...

  spec:
    components:
    - kind: clair
      managed: false
    - kind: clairpostgres
      managed: false
    - kind: mirror
      managed: false
    - kind: monitoring
      managed: false
    - kind: horizontalpodautoscaler
      managed: true
    - kind: objectstorage
      managed: true
    - kind: postgres
      managed: true
    - kind: quay
      managed: true
      overrides:
        env:
        - name: NO_PROXY
          value: cluster.local,.local,.svc,127.0.0.1,192.168.0.0/16,localhost,proxy-user
        - name: HTTP_PROXY
          value: http://proxy-user:8080
        - name: HTTPS_PROXY
          value: http://proxy-user:8080
    - kind: redis
      managed: true
    - kind: route
      managed: true
    - kind: tls
      managed: true
    configBundleSecret: registry-quay-config-bundle

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