- Updated apiserver metric `request_filter_duration_seconds` to include a 10s, 15s and 30s bucket.
Updated apiserver metric `request_wait_duration_seconds` to include a 15s bucket. ([#118945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118945), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

  conntrack entries, sockets. This is achieved by reducing the `TIME-WAIT` state
  of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows
  kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))