diff --git a/src/app.ts b/src/app.ts
index 939b487..f51a487 100644
--- a/src/app.ts
+++ b/src/app.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import Handlers from './handlers';
 import Validator from './validator';
 import Redis, { RedisOptions } from 'ioredis';
 import { RedisClient, ClientOpts } from 'redis';
+import * as promClient from 'prom-client';
 import AutoscalerLogger from './logger';
 import shortid from 'shortid';
 import { ASAPPubKeyFetcher } from './asap';
@@ -234,6 +235,11 @@ async function startProcessingGroups() {
 logger.info(`Waiting ${config.InitialWaitForPooling}ms before starting to loop for group processing`);
 setTimeout(startProcessingGroups, config.InitialWaitForPooling);
 
+const groupProcessingErrorCounter = new promClient.Counter({
+    name: 'autoscaler_group_processing_errors',
+    help: 'Counter for high level group processing errors',
+});
+
 async function createGroupProcessingJobs() {
     const start = Date.now();
     const pollId = shortid.generate();
@@ -245,6 +251,8 @@ async function createGroupProcessingJobs() {
         await jobManager.createGroupProcessingJobs(ctx);
     } catch (err) {
         ctx.logger.error(`Error while creating group processing jobs`, { err });
+        // should increment some group processing error counter here
+        groupProcessingErrorCounter.inc();
     }
     setTimeout(createGroupProcessingJobs, config.GroupJobsCreationIntervalSec * 1000);
 }
@@ -287,7 +295,7 @@ const h = new Handlers({
     scalingManager,
 });
 
-const validator = new Validator({ instanceTracker, instanceGroupManager, metricsLoop });
+const validator = new Validator({ instanceTracker, instanceGroupManager, metricsLoop, shutdownManager });
 const loggedPaths = ['/sidecar*', '/groups*'];
 app.use(loggedPaths, stats.middleware);
 app.use('/', context.injectContext);
diff --git a/src/group_report.ts b/src/group_report.ts
index d296df8..283cd3b 100644
--- a/src/group_report.ts
+++ b/src/group_report.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ export default class GroupReportGenerator {
             expiredCount: 0,
             unTrackedCount: 0,
             shuttingDownCount: 0,
+            shutdownCount: 0,
             shutdownErrorCount: 0,
             reconfigureErrorCount: 0,
             reconfigureScheduledCount: 0,
diff --git a/src/instance_tracker.ts b/src/instance_tracker.ts
index c6650c3..f8770cd 100644
--- a/src/instance_tracker.ts
+++ b/src/instance_tracker.ts
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ export class InstanceTracker {
         for (let i = 0; i < states.length; i++) {
             statesShutdownStatus.push(this.shutdownStatusFromState(states[i]) || shutdownStatuses[i]);
         }
-        return states.filter((instanceState, index) => !statesShutdownStatus[index] && !shutdownConfirmations[index]);
+        return states.filter((_, index) => !statesShutdownStatus[index] && !shutdownConfirmations[index]);
     }
 
     mapToInstanceDetails(states: Array<InstanceState>): Array<InstanceDetails> {
diff --git a/src/validator.ts b/src/validator.ts
index ca60500..966bf8c 100644
--- a/src/validator.ts
+++ b/src/validator.ts
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ import { Request } from 'express';
 import InstanceGroupManager, { InstanceGroup } from './instance_group';
 import { InstanceGroupDesiredValuesRequest } from './handlers';
 import MetricsLoop from './metrics_loop';
+import ShutdownManager from './shutdown_manager';
 
 export interface ValidatorOptions {
     instanceTracker: InstanceTracker;
     metricsLoop: MetricsLoop;
     instanceGroupManager: InstanceGroupManager;
+    shutdownManager: ShutdownManager;
     scaleStatus?: string;
     cloudStatus?: string;
     isShuttingDown?: boolean;
@@ -19,11 +21,13 @@ export default class Validator {
     private instanceTracker: InstanceTracker;
     private instanceGroupManager: InstanceGroupManager;
     private metricsLoop: MetricsLoop;
+    private shutdownManager: ShutdownManager;
 
     constructor(options: ValidatorOptions) {
         this.instanceTracker = options.instanceTracker;
         this.instanceGroupManager = options.instanceGroupManager;
         this.metricsLoop = options.metricsLoop;
+        this.shutdownManager = options.shutdownManager;
 
         this.groupHasActiveInstances = this.groupHasActiveInstances.bind(this);
     }
@@ -37,10 +41,15 @@ export default class Validator {
             })
             .map((cv, _) => cv.instanceId);
 
+        const instanceIds = instanceStates.map((v, _) => v.instanceId);
+
+        const shutdownConfirmations = await this.shutdownManager.getShutdownConfirmations(context, instanceIds);
+
         return (
-            instanceStates.filter((v, _) => {
+            instanceStates.filter((v, i) => {
                 // skip any that have completed shutdown
                 if (v.shutdownComplete) return false;
+                if (shutdownConfirmations[i]) return false;
 
                 // only include instances that are not listed as SHUTDOWN or TERMINATED
                 return !shutdownInstances.includes(v.instanceId);