diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/main.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/main.go
index badca2fc634..7c670b34ac9 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/main.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/main.go
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ func run(healthCheck *metrics.HealthCheck, commonFlag *common.CommonFlags) {
 	config := common.CreateKubeConfigOrDie(commonFlag.KubeConfig, float32(commonFlag.KubeApiQps), int(commonFlag.KubeApiBurst))
 	kubeClient := kube_client.NewForConfigOrDie(config)
 	clusterState := model.NewClusterState(aggregateContainerStateGCInterval)
-	factory := informers.NewSharedInformerFactoryWithOptions(kubeClient, defaultResyncPeriod, informers.WithNamespace(commonFlag.IgnoredVpaObjectNamespaces))
+	factory := informers.NewSharedInformerFactoryWithOptions(kubeClient, defaultResyncPeriod, informers.WithNamespace(commonFlag.VpaObjectNamespace))
 	controllerFetcher := controllerfetcher.NewControllerFetcher(config, kubeClient, factory, scaleCacheEntryFreshnessTime, scaleCacheEntryLifetime, scaleCacheEntryJitterFactor)
-	podLister, oomObserver := input.NewPodListerAndOOMObserver(kubeClient, commonFlag.IgnoredVpaObjectNamespaces, stopCh)
+	podLister, oomObserver := input.NewPodListerAndOOMObserver(kubeClient, commonFlag.VpaObjectNamespace, stopCh)
 
 	model.InitializeAggregationsConfig(model.NewAggregationsConfig(*memoryAggregationInterval, *memoryAggregationIntervalCount, *memoryHistogramDecayHalfLife, *cpuHistogramDecayHalfLife, *oomBumpUpRatio, *oomMinBumpUp))