diff --git a/xos-apps/auto-scale/README.md b/xos-apps/auto-scale/README.md
index 86f76d5..adee153 100644
--- a/xos-apps/auto-scale/README.md
+++ b/xos-apps/auto-scale/README.md
@@ -4,5 +4,27 @@
 
 `python xos_auto_scaling_app.py`
 
-This command will start the autoscaling applications.
+This command will start the autoscaling application and start REST server on 9991 port.
 
+To verify the autoscaling application:
+1) Login to cloudlab compute nodes
+2) On each compute node, open /etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml file
+3) Change the polling interval for "cpu_source" meters from 600 to 60 as shown below
+From:
+    - name: cpu_source
+      interval: 600
+      meters:
+          - "cpu"
+      sinks:
+          - cpu_sink
+
+To:
+    - name: cpu_source
+      interval: 60
+      meters:
+          - "cpu"
+      sinks:
+          - cpu_sink
+4) sudo service ceilometer-agent-compute restart
+5) With this change, the autoscaling application should start receiving the CPU utilization samples every 60 seconds
+6) The REST API to retrieve the cpu utilization samples from autoscaling application: http://<app_ip>:9991/autoscaledata