- Added `started_user_namespaced_pods_total` and `started_user_namespaced_pods_errors_total` for tracking the successes and failures in creating pods if a user namespace was requested. ([#132902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132902), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Added a new metric `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reloads_total` to measure the total number of API server encryption configuration reload successes and failures.  This metric now contains the `status` label with a value that is either `success` or `failure`. Deprecated the metrics `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_success_total` and `apiserver_encryption_config_contro...