Kubernetes v1.37: Native Histograms Graduates to Beta

2026-09-14

Native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics has graduated to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37. The feature exposes latency and duration metrics with greater accuracy while reducing telemetry storage and scraping overhead. Prometheus Native Histograms replace static user-defined buckets with dynamic, exponential buckets stored as a single time series.