You are the on-call Site Reliability Engineer for a microservice that is deployed to a...

You are the on-call Site Reliability Engineer for a microservice that is deployed to a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot cluster. Your company runs an online store that publishes order messages to Pub/Sub and a microservice receives these messages and updates stock information in the warehousing system. A sales event caused an increase in orders, and the stock information is not being updated quickly enough. This is causing a large number of orders to be accepted for products that are out of stock You check the metrics for the microservice and compare them to typical levels.

You need to ensure that the warehouse system accurately reflects product inventory at the time orders are placed and minimize the impact on customers What should you do?