first question, you know.'

  It was, no doubt:  only Alice did not like to be told so.
`It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, `the way all the
creatures argue.  It's enough to drive one crazy!'

  The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
repeating his remark, with variations.  `I shall sit here,' he
said, `on and off, for days and days.'

first question, you know.'

  It was, no doubt:  only Alice did not like to be told so.
`It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, `the way all the
creatures argue.  It's enough to drive one crazy!'

  The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
repeating his remark, with variations.  `I shall sit here,' he
said, `on and off, for days and days.'

- Added `apiserver_longrunning_requests` metric to replace the soon to be deprecated `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` metric. ([#103799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103799), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))
- Controller-manager: the following flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24:
  - `--port`

  - `kube-apiserver` publishes `apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis` gauge metrics set to `1` for deprecated APIs which have been requested, with `group`, `version`, `resource`, `subresource`, and `removed_release` labels ([#73032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73032), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

- Adds two new metrics to cronjobs, a histogram to track the time difference when a job is created and the expected time when it should be created, as well as a gauge for the missed schedules of a cronjob ([#99341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99341), [@alaypatel07](https://github.com/alaypatel07))

- etcd version monitor metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#83283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83283), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Change `pod_preemption_victims` metric from Gauge to Histogram. ([#83603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83603), [@Tabrizian](https://github.com/Tabrizian))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing

## Metrics Changes

### Added metrics

- `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` was removed from the codebase. Please use `apiserver_longrunning_requests`
  instead.
   ([#110310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110310), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

* Add aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_{count,gauge} metrics in the kube-aggregator. ([#71380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71380), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))