<p>I want to know if the apiserver_request_duration_seconds accounts the time needed to transfer the request (and/or response) from the clients (e.g. kubelets) to the server (and vice-versa) or it is just the time needed to process the request internally (apiserver + etcd) and no communication time is accounted for ?</p>

<p>As a plus, I also want to know where this metric is updated in the apiserver's HTTP handler chains ?</p>

Karim Manaouil
<p>How long API requests are taking to run. Whole thing, from when it starts the HTTP handler to when it returns a response.</p>
