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[eks] [request]: Support specifying API Server Metric Cardinality Enforcement flag

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**Tell us about your request**

Let users configure this API Flag: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2305

**Which service(s) is this request for?**

EKS

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**

API Server metrics are extremely high cardinality to begin with and only gets exponentially worse the more CRDs you install into the control plane. The upstream community has provided this flag as a source side control to this.

This is extremely problematic for many installations of Prometheus or managed prometheus providers where you are paying for every series generated, such as AWS Managed Prometheus or Grafana Cloud.

**Are you currently working around this issue?**

Attempting to write prometheus relabel rules to drop what we don't need.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Kubernetes enhancement issue 2305 and the EKS roadmap context to understand the API Server Metric Cardinality Enforcement flag. Done means EKS users can configure this flag and reduce unwanted API server metric series, with the supported configuration and limitations documented.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, kubernetes
Domain
cloud, observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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