diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/metrics/collectors/cri_metrics.go b/pkg/kubelet/metrics/collectors/cri_metrics.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2022 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package collectors
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"k8s.io/component-base/metrics"
+	runtimeapi "k8s.io/cri-api/pkg/apis/runtime/v1"
+	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
+)
+
+type criMetricsCollector struct {
+	metrics.BaseStableCollector
+	// The descriptors structure will be populated by one call to ListMetricDescriptors from the runtime.
+	// They will be saved in this map, where the key is the Name and the value is the Desc.
+	descriptors             map[string]*metrics.Desc
+	listPodSandboxMetricsFn func(context.Context) ([]*runtimeapi.PodSandboxMetrics, error)
+}
+
+// Check if criMetricsCollector implements necessary interface
+var _ metrics.StableCollector = &criMetricsCollector{}
+
+// NewCRIMetricsCollector implements the metrics.Collector interface
+func NewCRIMetricsCollector(ctx context.Context, listPodSandboxMetricsFn func(context.Context) ([]*runtimeapi.PodSandboxMetrics, error), listMetricDescriptorsFn func(context.Context) ([]*runtimeapi.MetricDescriptor, error)) metrics.StableCollector {
+	descs, err := listMetricDescriptorsFn(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		klog.ErrorS(err, "Error reading MetricDescriptors")
+		return &criMetricsCollector{
+			listPodSandboxMetricsFn: listPodSandboxMetricsFn,
+		}
+	}
+	c := &criMetricsCollector{
+		listPodSandboxMetricsFn: listPodSandboxMetricsFn,
+		descriptors:             make(map[string]*metrics.Desc, len(descs)),
+	}
+
+	for _, desc := range descs {
+		c.descriptors[desc.Name] = criDescToProm(desc)
+	}
+
+	return c
+}
+
+// Describe implements the metrics.DescribeWithStability interface.
+func (c *criMetricsCollector) DescribeWithStability(ch chan<- *metrics.Desc) {
+	for _, desc := range c.descriptors {
+		ch <- desc
+	}
+}
+
+// Collect implements the metrics.CollectWithStability interface.
+// TODO(haircommander): would it be better if these were processed async?
+func (c *criMetricsCollector) CollectWithStability(ch chan<- metrics.Metric) {
+	podMetrics, err := c.listPodSandboxMetricsFn(context.Background())
+	if err != nil {
+		klog.ErrorS(err, "Failed to get pod metrics")
+		return
+	}
+
+	for _, podMetric := range podMetrics {
+		for _, metric := range podMetric.GetMetrics() {
+			promMetric, err := c.criMetricToProm(metric)
+			if err == nil {
+				ch <- promMetric
+			}
+		}
+		for _, ctrMetric := range podMetric.GetContainerMetrics() {
+			for _, metric := range ctrMetric.GetMetrics() {
+				promMetric, err := c.criMetricToProm(metric)
+				if err == nil {
+					ch <- promMetric
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func criDescToProm(m *runtimeapi.MetricDescriptor) *metrics.Desc {
+	// Labels in the translation are variableLabels, as opposed to constant labels.
+	// This is because the values of the labels will be different for each container.
+	return metrics.NewDesc(m.Name, m.Help, m.LabelKeys, nil, metrics.INTERNAL, "")
+}
+
+func (c *criMetricsCollector) criMetricToProm(m *runtimeapi.Metric) (metrics.Metric, error) {
+	desc, ok := c.descriptors[m.Name]
+	if !ok {
+		err := fmt.Errorf("error converting CRI Metric to prometheus format")
+		klog.V(5).ErrorS(err, "Descriptor not present in pre-populated list of descriptors", "descriptor name", m.Name)
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	typ := criTypeToProm[m.MetricType]
+
+	pm, err := metrics.NewConstMetric(desc, typ, float64(m.GetValue().Value), m.LabelValues...)
+	if err != nil {
+		klog.ErrorS(err, "Error getting CRI prometheus metric", "descriptor", desc.String())
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// If Timestamp is 0, then the runtime did not cache the result.
+	// In this case, a cached result is a metric that was collected ahead of time,
+	// as opposed to on-demand.
+	// If the metric was requested as needed, then Timestamp==0.
+	if m.Timestamp == 0 {
+		return pm, nil
+	}
+	return metrics.NewLazyMetricWithTimestamp(time.Unix(0, m.Timestamp), pm), nil
+}
+
+var criTypeToProm = map[runtimeapi.MetricType]metrics.ValueType{
+	runtimeapi.MetricType_COUNTER: metrics.CounterValue,
+	runtimeapi.MetricType_GAUGE:   metrics.GaugeValue,
+}