diff --git a/src/autoscaler/metricsforwarder/.gitignore b/src/autoscaler/metricsforwarder/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1007fd4802
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/autoscaler/metricsforwarder/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+certs
+metricsforwarder
+working.yml
+metricsforwarder.yml