- Added 3 new metrics for monitoring async API calls in the scheduler when the `SchedulerAsyncAPICalls` feature gate was enabled:
    - `scheduler_async_api_call_execution_total`: tracks executed API calls by call type and result (success/error)
    - `scheduler_async_api_call_duration_seconds`: histogram of API call execution duration by call type and result

- kube-apiserver now reloads the `--authorization-config` file when it changes. Reloads increment the `apiserver_authorization_config_controller_automatic_reload_last_timestamp_seconds` timestamp metric, with `status="success"` for successful reloads and `status="failed"` for failed reloads. Failed reloads keep using the previously loaded authorization configuration.

* Adds a new "storage_operation_status_count" metric for kube-controller-manager and kubelet to count success and error statues. ([#75750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75750), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

- kubeadm: added "disable success" and "disable denial" as parameters of the "cache" plugin in the Corefile managed by kubeadm. This is to prevent conflicting responses during CoreDNS cache updates. ([#128359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128359), [@matteriben](h...

- Added a new `storage_operation_status_count` metric for kube-controller-manager and kubelet to count success and error statues. ([#75750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75750), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

- Applying fix for not tagging static public IP. ([#101752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101752), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Applying fix so that deleting non-existing disk returns success. ([#102083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102083), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Misc

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

  * Success and latency metrics for all Kubernetes calls are available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API. You can request volume operations, including mount, unmount, attach, detach, provision, and delete.