diff --git a/applyconfigurations/core/v1/resourcehealth.go b/applyconfigurations/core/v1/resourcehealth.go
index 684153c49..061535b8d 100644
--- a/applyconfigurations/core/v1/resourcehealth.go
+++ b/applyconfigurations/core/v1/resourcehealth.go
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ type ResourceHealthApplyConfiguration struct {
 	//
 	// In future we may want to introduce the PermanentlyUnhealthy Status.
 	Health *corev1.ResourceHealthStatus `json:"health,omitempty"`
+	// Message provides human-readable context for Health (e.g. "ECC error count exceeded threshold").
+	// This field is populated by the kubelet when ResourceHealthStatusMessage is enabled if the DRA plugin returns a message, and is null otherwise.
+	Message *string `json:"message,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // ResourceHealthApplyConfiguration constructs a declarative configuration of the ResourceHealth type for use with
@@ -64,3 +67,11 @@ func (b *ResourceHealthApplyConfiguration) WithHealth(value corev1.ResourceHealt
 	b.Health = &value
 	return b
 }
+
+// WithMessage sets the Message field in the declarative configuration to the given value
+// and returns the receiver, so that objects can be built by chaining "With" function invocations.
+// If called multiple times, the Message field is set to the value of the last call.
+func (b *ResourceHealthApplyConfiguration) WithMessage(value string) *ResourceHealthApplyConfiguration {
+	b.Message = &value
+	return b
+}
diff --git a/applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go b/applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go
index 251245afb..ebf35632d 100644
--- a/applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go
+++ b/applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go
@@ -7519,6 +7519,9 @@ var schemaYAML = typed.YAMLObject(`types:
     - name: health
       type:
         scalar: string
+    - name: message
+      type:
+        scalar: string
     - name: resourceID
       type:
         scalar: string
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3a62ca430..fe9649218 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/time v0.14.0
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.11
 	gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.13.0
-	k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202014-605cb02318a5
+	k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202015-13e1054b051a
 	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20260227203245-48224b4d1ddb
 	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20260127142750-a19766b6e2d4
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 54891af57..37d127906 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1/go.mod h1:cWUDdTG/fYaXco+Dcufb5Vnc6Gp2YChqWtbxRZE0mXw=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
-k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202014-605cb02318a5 h1:dsTzpa8GpQOvVwLCfHLrYf2Ay6Ts3ryD40BbDuhhAVE=
-k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202014-605cb02318a5/go.mod h1:qhb/XTo9jEH6dtv01aF9OubVFb/O4rILeIUv25AhTbw=
+k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202015-13e1054b051a h1:Tevx3r+RgIlXg5kdBJaiaK3cDoMRck8MMTgRwmVCOi8=
+k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260303202015-13e1054b051a/go.mod h1:qhb/XTo9jEH6dtv01aF9OubVFb/O4rILeIUv25AhTbw=
 k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20260227203245-48224b4d1ddb h1:0MWXuP1Qkr2TJBSQ2qYrHARDtTXH4TeTZ9q8OPHOQFM=
 k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20260227203245-48224b4d1ddb/go.mod h1:zqp0Kd80VeQZHyQ4j0VW/sn9zTHYeXFd/brJe5Po20w=
 k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1 h1:n9Xl7H1Xvksem4KFG4PYbdQCQxqc/tTUyrgXaOhHSzk=