- Added `apiserver_longrunning_requests` metric to replace the soon to be deprecated `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` metric. ([#103799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103799), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))
- Controller-manager: the following flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24:

- Scheduler now waits for handlers to finish syncing before the scheduling cycles start. ([#116729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116729), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

### Added metrics
- Add `scheduler_goroutines` metric to track number of kube-scheduler binding and prioritizing goroutines ([#83535](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83535), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))
- Adding initial EndpointSlice metrics. ([#83257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83257), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- Introduced new apiserver metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_inqueue_seats`. This metric is analogous to `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_inqueue_requests`, but tracks the total number of seats, as each request can take more than one seat. ([#119385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119385), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- HPA controller exposes the following metrics from the kube-controller-manager. 
  - `metric_computation_duration_seconds`: The time(seconds) that the HPA controller takes to calculate one metric.
  - `metric_computation_total`: Number of metric computations. ([#116326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116326), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Apps, Autoscaling and Instrumentation]

- Fix etcd_object_counts metric reported by kube-apiserver ([#94818](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94818), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/oteltest: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/export/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel: v0.20.0

- Implemented `event_handling_duration_seconds` metric, which is the time the scheduler takes to handle each kind of events. ([#125929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125929), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- Included an additional resource labeltransformation in on_operations_total metric which could be used for resource specific validations for example handling of encryption config by the apiserver. ([#126512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126512), [@kmala](https://github.com/kmala)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Etcd and Testing]

* azure: Add allow unsafe read from cache ([#83685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83685), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))