diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 964b725..79660e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and **Merged pull requests**. Critical items to know are:
 The versions coincide with releases on pip. Only major versions will be released as tags on Github.
 
 ## [0.0.x](https://github.com/converged-computing/kubescaler/tree/main) (0.0.x)
+ - allow customization of autoscaling (0.0.2)
  - ensure we do not add size for node scaling up/down times (0.0.19)
  - do not use the waiter for nodegroup_active it does not work! (0.0.18)
    - support for Google Cloud instance group creation, etc.
diff --git a/kubescaler/scaler/google.py b/kubescaler/scaler/google.py
index b7a1785..1b3a4a9 100644
--- a/kubescaler/scaler/google.py
+++ b/kubescaler/scaler/google.py
@@ -307,16 +307,18 @@ def delete_nodegroup(self, name=None):
         self.client.delete_node_pool(request=request)
         return self.wait_for_status(2)
 
-    def get_cluster(self, node_pools=None):
+    def get_cluster(self, node_pools=None, scaling_profile=1):
         """
         Get the cluster proto with our defaults
         """
+        if scaling_profile not in [0, 1, 2]:
+            raise ValueError("Scaling profile must be one of 0,1,2")
         # Design our initial cluster!
         # Autoscaling - try optimizing
         # PROFILE_UNSPECIFIED = 0
         # OPTIMIZE_UTILIZATION = 1
         # BALANCED = 2
-        autoscaling_profile = container_v1.ClusterAutoscaling.AutoscalingProfile(1)
+        autoscaling_profile = container_v1.ClusterAutoscaling.AutoscalingProfile(scaling_profile)
 
         # These are required, you get an error without them.
         # https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/compute-optimized-machines
diff --git a/kubescaler/version.py b/kubescaler/version.py
index e139094..18b6188 100644
--- a/kubescaler/version.py
+++ b/kubescaler/version.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (MIT)
 
-__version__ = "0.0.19"
+__version__ = "0.0.2"
 AUTHOR = "Vanessa Sochat"
 EMAIL = "vsoch@users.noreply.github.com"
 NAME = "kubescaler"