testing for runtime failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed UIDs) are restarted.  As a side effect of these changes static pods will be restarted with lower latency than before (2s vs 4s, on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states....

  - `priority_level_request_count_watermarks` is removed.
  - `read_vs_write_request_count_samples` is replaced with `read_vs_write_current_requests`, which samples every nanosecond rather than every second; the new metric, like the old one, measures utilization when the max-in-flight filter is used and number of requests when the API Priority and Fairness filter is used.

- Added a "reason" field to the "image_garbage_collected_total" metric, allowing administrators to differentiate between images that were collected for reasons "age" vs "space".
   ([#123345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123345), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))