diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
index a3824dedb7f..4c2abfaedce 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -516,11 +516,15 @@ func RecordLongRunning(req *http.Request, requestInfo *request.RequestInfo, comp
 // MonitorRequest handles standard transformations for client and the reported verb and then invokes Monitor to record
 // a request. verb must be uppercase to be backwards compatible with existing monitoring tooling.
 func MonitorRequest(req *http.Request, verb, group, version, resource, subresource, scope, component string, deprecated bool, removedRelease string, httpCode, respSize int, elapsed time.Duration) {
+	requestInfo, ok := request.RequestInfoFrom(req.Context())
+	if !ok || requestInfo == nil {
+		requestInfo = &request.RequestInfo{Verb: req.Method, Path: req.URL.Path}
+	}
 	// We don't use verb from <requestInfo>, as this may be propagated from
 	// InstrumentRouteFunc which is registered in installer.go with predefined
 	// list of verbs (different than those translated to RequestInfo).
 	// However, we need to tweak it e.g. to differentiate GET from LIST.
-	reportedVerb := cleanVerb(CanonicalVerb(strings.ToUpper(req.Method), scope), verb, req, nil)
+	reportedVerb := cleanVerb(CanonicalVerb(strings.ToUpper(req.Method), scope), verb, req, requestInfo)
 
 	dryRun := cleanDryRun(req.URL)
 	elapsedSeconds := elapsed.Seconds()