- Component owner can configure the allowlist of metric label with flag '--allow-metric-labels'. ([#99385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99385), [@YoyinZyc](https://github.com/YoyinZyc)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Release]

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:
    - `cronjob_job_creation_skew_duration_seconds` -> `job_creation_skew_duration_seconds`.' ([#113008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113008), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- Registered_metric_total, disabled_metric_total, hidden_metric_total & kubernetes_feature_enabled are promoted to `BETA` stability. ([#119264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119264), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Cluster Lifecycle...

- 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.

- 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))

- Add one metrics(`kubelet_volume_stats_health_abnormal`) of volume health state to kubelet ([#105585](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105585), [@fengzixu](https://github.com/fengzixu))

  - Applications that fetch metrics from kube-scheduler should use a dedicated service account which is allowed to access nonResourceURLs `/metrics`. ([#96345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96345), [@ingvagabund](https://github.com/ingvagabund)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scheduling and Testing]

- Metric `running_managed_controllers` is enabled for Cloud Node Lifecycle controller. ([#111033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111033), [@jprzychodzen](https://github.com/jprzychodzen))

- Metrics server nanny has now poll period set to 30s (previously 5 minutes) to allow faster scaling of metrics server. ([#101869](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101869), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]

`autoscaling/v2alpha1`. The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler changes include support for status conditions, and autoscaling on memory and custom metrics.

* The metrics APIs, `custom-metrics.metrics.k8s.io` and `metrics`, were moved from `v1alpha1` to `v1beta1`, and renamed to `custom.metrics.k8s.io` and `metrics.k8s.io`, respectively. If you have deployed a custom metrics adapter, ensure that it supports the new API version. If you have deployed Heapster in aggregated API server mode, upgrade Heapster...