diff --git a/charts/coredns/values.yaml b/charts/coredns/values.yaml
index e7d21c2f4..4bd47f984 100644
--- a/charts/coredns/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/coredns/values.yaml
@@ -255,7 +255,13 @@ hpa:
   enabled: false
   minReplicas: 1
   maxReplicas: 2
-  metrics: []
+  metrics:
+  - type: Resource
+    resource:
+      name: cpu
+      target:
+        type: Utilization
+        averageUtilization: 60
 
 ## Configue a cluster-proportional-autoscaler for coredns
 # See https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cluster-proportional-autoscaler