- The nftables kube-proxy mode now has its own metrics rather than reporting
  metrics with "iptables" in their names. ([#124557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124557), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* The implicit registration of Prometheus metrics for request count and latency have been removed, and a plug-able interface was added. If you were using our client libraries in your own binaries and want these metrics, add the following to your imports in the main package: "k8s.io/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus".  ([#30638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30638), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))

* Migrate the metrics/v1alpha1 API to metrics/v1beta1.  The HorizontalPodAutoscaler ([#51653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51653), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))
    * controller REST client now uses that version.  For v1beta1, the API is now known as
    * resource-metrics.metrics.k8s.io.

   * indexable using ints.
   */
  static final int MAXIMUM_CAPACITY = 1 << 30;

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */
  static final int MAX_SEGMENTS = 1 << 16; // slightly conservative

  /** Number of (unsynchronized) retries in the containsValue method. */
  static final int CONTAINS_VALUE_RETRIES = 3;

   * indexable using ints.
   */
  static final int MAXIMUM_CAPACITY = 1 << 30;

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */
  static final int MAX_SEGMENTS = 1 << 16; // slightly conservative

  /** Number of (unsynchronized) retries in the containsValue method. */
  static final int CONTAINS_VALUE_RETRIES = 3;

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- For metrics `apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total`, `apiserver_cache_list_returned_objects_total`, `apiserver_cache_list_total` replace `resource_prefix` label with API `group` and `resource` labels.

- `scheduler`: handling of unschedulable pods because a `ResourceClass` is missing
  is a bit more efficient and no longer relies on periodic retries. ([#120213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120213), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

## Dependencies

### Added
- cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/v2: v2.0.1

* The Metrics Server now exposes metrics via the /metric endpoint. These metrics are in the prometheus format.  ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

                    }
                }
            }
        }

        // If we get here, all retries failed
        if (lastException != null) {
            assumeTrue(false, "All connection attempts failed - skipping test: " + lastException.getMessage());
        }
    }

    @Test

- Introduced end-to-end tests to verify component invariant metrics across the entire test suite. ([#133394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133394), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))
- Introduced new kubelet metrics for the Ensure Secret Pulled Images KEP, including:
      - `kubelet_imagemanager_ondisk_pullintents` for tracking pull intent records on disk