diff --git a/db/models/config_item.go b/db/models/config_item.go
index 2b31d5bf..a0d7a765 100644
--- a/db/models/config_item.go
+++ b/db/models/config_item.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/flanksource/duty/types"
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/lib/pq"
+	"github.com/samber/lo"
 )
 
 // ConfigItem represents the config item database table
@@ -48,10 +49,10 @@ type ConfigItem struct {
 
 func (ci ConfigItem) String() string {
 	if len(ci.ExternalID) == 0 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("id=%s name=%s type=%s", ci.ID, *ci.Type, *ci.Name)
+		return fmt.Sprintf("id=%s type=%s name=%s ", ci.ID, lo.FromPtr(ci.Type), lo.FromPtr(ci.Name))
 	}
 
-	return fmt.Sprintf("id=%s name=%s type=%s external_id=%s", ci.ID, *ci.Type, *ci.Name, ci.ExternalID[0])
+	return fmt.Sprintf("id=%s type=%s name=%s external_id=%s", ci.ID, lo.FromPtr(ci.Type), lo.FromPtr(ci.Name), ci.ExternalID[0])
 }
 
 func (ci ConfigItem) ConfigJSONStringMap() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
diff --git a/db/update.go b/db/update.go
index 65fedb04..ee8ca64e 100644
--- a/db/update.go
+++ b/db/update.go
@@ -711,6 +711,10 @@ func extractConfigsAndChangesFromResults(ctx api.ScrapeContext, scrapeStartTime
 
 func setConfigParents(ctx api.ScrapeContext, parentTypeToConfigMap map[configExternalKey]string, allConfigs []*models.ConfigItem) error {
 	for _, ci := range allConfigs {
+		if ci.ParentID != nil {
+			continue // existing item. Parent is already set.
+		}
+
 		if ci.ParentExternalID == "" || ci.ParentType == "" {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/scrapers/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/scrapers/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index 2dfcfef7..d226614d 100644
--- a/scrapers/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/scrapers/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ func ExtractResults(ctx context.Context, config v1.Kubernetes, objs []*unstructu
 			ID:                  string(obj.GetUID()),
 			Labels:              stripLabels(labels, "-hash"),
 			Tags:                tags,
-			Aliases:             getKubernetesAlias(obj),
+			Aliases:             []string{getKubernetesAlias(obj.GetKind(), obj.GetNamespace(), obj.GetName())},
 			ParentExternalID:    parentExternalID,
 			ParentType:          ConfigTypePrefix + parentType,
 			RelationshipResults: relationships,
@@ -492,17 +492,25 @@ func getKubernetesParent(obj *unstructured.Unstructured, exclusions v1.Kubernete
 	if obj.GetNamespace() != "" {
 		parentConfigType = "Namespace"
 		parentExternalID = resourceIDMap[""]["Namespace"][obj.GetNamespace()]
+
+		if parentExternalID == "" {
+			// An incremental scraper maynot have the Namespace object.
+			// We can instead use the alias as the external id.
+			parentExternalID = getKubernetesAlias("Namespace", "", obj.GetNamespace())
+		}
+
 		return parentConfigType, parentExternalID
 	}
 
 	// Everything which is not namespaced should be mapped to cluster
 	parentConfigType = "Cluster"
 	parentExternalID = resourceIDMap[""]["Cluster"]["selfRef"]
+
 	return parentConfigType, parentExternalID
 }
 
-func getKubernetesAlias(obj *unstructured.Unstructured) []string {
-	return []string{strings.Join([]string{"Kubernetes", obj.GetKind(), obj.GetNamespace(), obj.GetName()}, "/")}
+func getKubernetesAlias(kind, namespace, name string) string {
+	return strings.Join([]string{"Kubernetes", kind, namespace, name}, "/")
 }
 
 func updateOptions(ctx context.Context, opts *options.KetallOptions, config v1.Kubernetes) (*options.KetallOptions, error) {