- 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.

- Remove the deprecated metrics "scheduling_algorithm_preemption_evaluation_seconds" and "binding_duration_seconds", suggest to use "scheduler_framework_extension_point_duration_seconds" instead. ([#96447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96447), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Scheduling and Testing]

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

* Cloud Controller Manager now sets Node.Spec.ProviderID ([#50730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50730), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
* Parameterize session affinity timeout seconds in service API for Client IP based session affinity. ([#49850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49850), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))

      - `rest_client_request_latency_seconds` -> `rest_client_request_duration_seconds`
      - `scheduler_scheduling_latency_seconds` -> `scheduler_scheduling_duration_seconds `
      - `docker_operations` -> `docker_operations_total`
      - `docker_operations_latency_microseconds` -> `docker_operations_duration_seconds`
      - `docker_operations_errors` -> `docker_operations_errors_total`

- `kube-proxy` in iptables mode will now have separate `sync_full_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`\nand
  `sync_partial_proxy_rules_duration_seconds` (in addition to the existing\n`sync_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`),
  giving better information about the duration of each \nsync type, rather than

- Deprecated metric `rest_client_request_latency_seconds` has been turned off. ([#83836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83836), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:
  `node_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  `node_memory_working_set_bytes`
  `container_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  `container_memory_working_set_bytes`
  `scrape_error`

    *   reflector_items_per_list
    *   reflector_items_per_watch
    *   reflector_last_resource_version
    *   reflector_list_duration_seconds
    *   reflector_lists_total
    *   reflector_short_watches_total
    *   reflector_watch_duration_seconds
    *   reflector_watches_total

* API server authentication now caches successful bearer token authentication results for a few seconds. ([#50258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50258), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fix azure disk attachment error on Linux ([#70002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70002), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.