Issues

• Build with Go v. >=1.26.10

  kind/featureneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3185 · Filter by author MarcStorm opened on Oct 29, 2026
  1

• New release for eMudhra certificate compromise

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3175 · Filter by author rittneje opened on Oct 26, 2026
  2

• Add kube_volumeattributesclass_parameters metric

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3174 · Filter by author FRosner opened on Oct 26, 2026
  1

• Request: release with golang.org/x/crypto v0.55.0+ and grpc v1.82.1+ (open security findings on v2.20.0)

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3170 · Filter by author rna-zz opened on Oct 23, 2026
  1

• Custom-resource Gauge logs "got nil while resolving path" when the path does not resolve

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3168 · Filter by author nahuel11500 opened on Oct 22, 2026
  1

• Call for maintainers for kube-state-metrics and resource-state-metrics

  help wantedtriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3165 · Filter by author dgrisonnet opened on Oct 21, 2026
  3

• feature: Add first-class support for hostUsers parameter in Helm chart values

  kind/featureneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3164 · Filter by author thakur-svg opened on Oct 21, 2026
  1

• Document the metric lifecycle

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3157 · Filter by author bhope opened on Oct 13, 2026 · v3.0.0
  1

  

• Define compatibility guarantees for STABLE metrics (including across major versions)

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3156 · Filter by author bhope opened on Oct 13, 2026 · v3.0.0
  1

  

• kube-state-metrics V3 Plan

  triage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3118 · Filter by author mrueg opened on Sep 8, 2026 · v3.0.0
  5

• test: move shell tests to go (addressing a TODO comment)

  needs-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3113 · Filter by author bxrne opened on Sep 6, 2026
  1

• Feature Proposal: Support loading multiple Custom Resource State ConfigMaps simultaneously

  kind/featureneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3095 · Filter by author Dentrax opened on Aug 17, 2026
  1

• Collect status.nodeInfo.bootID from Node objects

  kind/featureneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3056 · Filter by author kwohlfahrt opened on Aug 4, 2026
  3

• customResourceState registers the metric family and then serves nothing

  lifecycle/staleneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3052 · Filter by author vde-dis opened on Jul 29, 2026
  2

• Since v2.19.0 Release does not include binaries anymore

  kind/bug
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3032 · Filter by author benjaminguttmann-avtq opened on Jul 7, 2026
  5

  

• New metric: kube_crd_created

  kind/featurelifecycle/staleneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3028 · Filter by author alshain opened on Jul 3, 2026
  3

  

• Update and move KSM metrics documentation to https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/instrumentation/metrics/

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3023 · Filter by author CatherineF-dev opened on Jun 28, 2026
  3

• Identical cron behaviour to k8s

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3021 · Filter by author mpldr opened on Jun 26, 2026
  7

  

• Content negotiation ignores supported formats when highest-quality Accept entry is unsupported (protobuf)

  kind/bugtriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3010 · Filter by author adziauho opened on Jun 18, 2026
  3

  

• kube_pod_owner should report owner apiVersion

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#3008 · Filter by author kwohlfahrt opened on Jun 18, 2026
  2

• Feature Request: Add metrics for actual allocated container resources (status.containerStatuses[*].resources) to support In-Place Pod Resize

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#2980 · Filter by author P0lskay opened on Jun 5, 2026
  3

• Add optional native OTLP metrics exporter

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#2975 · Filter by author tonychoe opened on Jun 1, 2026
  4

• Make kube-state-metrics easier to embed as a Go library

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#2972 · Filter by author kgeckhart opened on May 29, 2026
  7

• Standardize goroutine leak detection

  kind/featuretriage/accepted
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#2958 · Filter by author bhope opened on May 15, 2026
  4

  

• Revisit Release Process

  kind/buglifecycle/staleneeds-triage
  kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#2954 · Filter by author rexagod opened on May 11, 2026
  5