- *apiserver_cache_list_total*: Counter of LIST requests served from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name
  - *apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total*: Counter of objects read from watch cache in the course of serving a LIST request, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name

- Kube-apiserver metrics will now include request counts, latencies, and response sizes for /healthz, /livez, and /readyz requests. ([#83598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83598), [@jktomer](https://github.com/jktomer)) [SIG API Machinery]

  When you enable the `KMSv2KDF` feature gate (off by default), KMS v2 uses a key derivation function to generate single use data encryption keys from a secret seed combined with some random data. This eliminates the need for a counter based nonce while avoiding nonce collision concerns associated with AES-GCM's 12 byte nonce. ([#118828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118828), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

- Added a new Prometheus counter metric `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_restore_failures_total` for kube-proxy iptables-restore failures (both ipvs and iptables modes)
  ([#81210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81210), [@figo](https://github.com/figo))

- To avoid soft-deleted pods incorrectly affecting scale up replica count calculations, the HPA controller will stop counting soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes. ([#67067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67067), [@moonek](https://github.com/moonek))

- 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

* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

- Fix cgroup handling for systemd with cgroup v2 ([#98365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98365), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG Node]
- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97451), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery, Network and Testing]