diff --git a/NodeChromium/Dockerfile b/NodeChromium/Dockerfile
index dbdd0edd2..0bba4f2dc 100644
--- a/NodeChromium/Dockerfile
+++ b/NodeChromium/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ USER root
 # Install Chromium
 ARG CHROMIUM_VERSION="latest"
 ARG CHROMIUM_DEB_SITE="http://deb.debian.org/debian"
-RUN echo "deb ${CHROMIUM_DEB_SITE}/ sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \
+RUN echo "deb ${CHROMIUM_DEB_SITE}/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \
   && wget -qO- https://ftp-master.debian.org/keys/archive-key-12.asc | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \
   && wget -qO- https://ftp-master.debian.org/keys/archive-key-12-security.asc | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-archive-security-keyring.gpg \
   && apt-get update -qqy \
diff --git a/charts/selenium-grid/CONFIGURATION.md b/charts/selenium-grid/CONFIGURATION.md
index 6011fcb91..c429fb6ef 100644
--- a/charts/selenium-grid/CONFIGURATION.md
+++ b/charts/selenium-grid/CONFIGURATION.md
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ A Helm chart for creating a Selenium Grid Server in Kubernetes
 | autoscaling.enableWithExistingKEDA | bool | `false` | Enable autoscaling without automatically installing KEDA |
 | autoscaling.scalingType | string | `"job"` | Which type of KEDA scaling to use: job or deployment |
 | autoscaling.authenticationRef | object | `{"annotations":{"helm.sh/hook":"post-install,post-upgrade,post-rollback","helm.sh/hook-weight":"-2"},"name":""}` | Specify an external KEDA TriggerAuthentication resource is used for scaler triggers config. Apply for all browser nodes |
+| autoscaling.useCachedMetrics | bool | `true` | Enables caching of metric values during polling interval (as specified in .spec.pollingInterval). |
+| autoscaling.metricType | string | `"Value"` | The type of metric that should be used (Override the default: AverageValue in KEDA) |
 | autoscaling.annotations | object | `{"helm.sh/hook":"post-install,post-upgrade,post-rollback","helm.sh/hook-weight":"1"}` | Annotations for KEDA resources: ScaledObject and ScaledJob |
 | autoscaling.patchObjectFinalizers.nameOverride | string | `nil` | Override the name of the patch job |
 | autoscaling.patchObjectFinalizers.enabled | bool | `true` | Enable patching finalizers for KEDA scaled resources. Workaround for Hook post-upgrade selenium-grid/templates/x-node-hpa.yaml failed: object is being deleted: scaledobjects.keda.sh "x" already exists |
diff --git a/charts/selenium-grid/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/selenium-grid/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 3873c5c2b..1ea6ab74a 100644
--- a/charts/selenium-grid/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/selenium-grid/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -240,14 +240,16 @@ Common autoscaling spec template
 triggers:
   - type: selenium-grid
     metadata:
+    {{- with .node.hpa }}
+      {{- tpl (toYaml .) $ | nindent 6 }}
+      {{- if not .nodeMaxSessions }}
       nodeMaxSessions: {{ $nodeMaxSessions | quote }}
-  {{- with .node.hpa }}
-    {{- tpl (toYaml .) $ | nindent 6 }}
-  {{- end }}
-  {{- if not .node.hpa.authenticationRef }}
+      {{- end }}
+    {{- end }}
     authenticationRef:
       name: {{ template "seleniumGrid.autoscaling.authenticationRef.fullname" $ }}
-  {{- end }}
+    useCachedMetrics: {{ $.Values.autoscaling.useCachedMetrics }}
+    metricType: {{ $.Values.autoscaling.metricType }}
 {{- end }}
 {{- end -}}
 
diff --git a/charts/selenium-grid/values.yaml b/charts/selenium-grid/values.yaml
index 0dc78cce8..fb36edd3c 100644
--- a/charts/selenium-grid/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/selenium-grid/values.yaml
@@ -836,6 +836,11 @@ autoscaling:
     annotations:
       "helm.sh/hook": post-install,post-upgrade,post-rollback
       "helm.sh/hook-weight": "-2"
+  # Configuration for ScaledObject triggers https://keda.sh/docs/latest/reference/scaledobject-spec/#triggers
+  # -- Enables caching of metric values during polling interval (as specified in .spec.pollingInterval).
+  useCachedMetrics: true
+  # -- The type of metric that should be used (Override the default: AverageValue in KEDA)
+  metricType: Value
   # -- Annotations for KEDA resources: ScaledObject and ScaledJob
   annotations:
     "helm.sh/hook": post-install,post-upgrade,post-rollback
diff --git a/tests/SmokeTests/__init__.py b/tests/SmokeTests/__init__.py
index d427eec72..660334ef8 100644
--- a/tests/SmokeTests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/SmokeTests/__init__.py
@@ -11,11 +11,15 @@
 SELENIUM_GRID_PORT = os.environ.get('SELENIUM_GRID_PORT', '4444')
 SELENIUM_GRID_USERNAME = os.environ.get('SELENIUM_GRID_USERNAME', '')
 SELENIUM_GRID_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('SELENIUM_GRID_PASSWORD', '')
+CHART_CERT_PATH = os.environ.get('CHART_CERT_PATH', None)
 SELENIUM_GRID_AUTOSCALING = os.environ.get('SELENIUM_GRID_AUTOSCALING', 'false')
 SELENIUM_GRID_AUTOSCALING_MIN_REPLICA = os.environ.get('SELENIUM_GRID_AUTOSCALING_MIN_REPLICA', 0)
 HUB_CHECKS_MAX_ATTEMPTS = os.environ.get('HUB_CHECKS_MAX_ATTEMPTS', 3)
 HUB_CHECKS_INTERVAL = os.environ.get('HUB_CHECKS_INTERVAL', 10)
 
+if CHART_CERT_PATH:
+  os.environ['REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE'] = CHART_CERT_PATH
+
 class SmokeTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def smoke_test_container(self, port):
         current_attempts = 0
@@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ def smoke_test_container(self, port):
     def client_verify_cert(self, port):
         grid_url_status = '%s://%s:%s/status' % (SELENIUM_GRID_PROTOCOL, SELENIUM_GRID_HOST, port)
         cert_path = os.environ.get("REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE")
-        response = requests.get(grid_url_status, verify=cert_path)
+        response = requests.get(grid_url_status, verify=cert_path, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(SELENIUM_GRID_USERNAME, SELENIUM_GRID_PASSWORD))
 
 class GridTest(SmokeTests):
     def test_grid_is_up(self):