diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/kubelet_stats.go b/test/e2e/framework/kubelet_stats.go
index 08115875004..9781b931173 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/kubelet_stats.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/kubelet_stats.go
@@ -28,16 +28,19 @@ import (
 	"text/tabwriter"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	utilerrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/errors"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait"
+
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/clientset_generated/clientset"
 	stats "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/stats/v1alpha1"
 	kubeletmetrics "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/metrics"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/master/ports"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/metrics"
+
+	"github.com/golang/glog"
+	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 )
 
 // KubeletMetric stores metrics scraped from the kubelet server's /metric endpoint.
@@ -367,6 +370,11 @@ func getOneTimeResourceUsageOnNode(
 	}
 
 	f := func(name string, newStats *stats.ContainerStats) *ContainerResourceUsage {
+		// TODO(gmarek): remove when #46198 is debugged.
+		if newStats == nil || newStats.CPU == nil {
+			glog.Warning("NewStats is %#v for container %v", newStats, name)
+			return &ContainerResourceUsage{}
+		}
 		return &ContainerResourceUsage{
 			Name:                    name,
 			Timestamp:               newStats.StartTime.Time,