diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go
index b572d335910..61a13ddd55c 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	EnableIndex     bool
 	EnableProfiling bool
+	DebugSocketPath string
 	EnableDiscovery bool
 
 	// Requires generic profiling enabled
@@ -360,6 +361,7 @@ func NewConfig(codecs serializer.CodecFactory) *Config {
 		EnableIndex:                 true,
 		EnableDiscovery:             true,
 		EnableProfiling:             true,
+		DebugSocketPath:             "",
 		EnableMetrics:               true,
 		MaxRequestsInFlight:         400,
 		MaxMutatingRequestsInFlight: 200,
@@ -631,6 +633,11 @@ func (c completedConfig) New(name string, delegationTarget DelegationTarget) (*G
 		return c.BuildHandlerChainFunc(handler, c.Config)
 	}
 
+	var debugSocket *routes.DebugSocket
+	if c.DebugSocketPath != "" {
+		debugSocket = routes.NewDebugSocket(c.DebugSocketPath)
+	}
+
 	apiServerHandler := NewAPIServerHandler(name, c.Serializer, handlerChainBuilder, delegationTarget.UnprotectedHandler())
 
 	s := &GenericAPIServer{
@@ -645,6 +652,7 @@ func (c completedConfig) New(name string, delegationTarget DelegationTarget) (*G
 		EquivalentResourceRegistry: c.EquivalentResourceRegistry,
 		HandlerChainWaitGroup:      c.HandlerChainWaitGroup,
 		Handler:                    apiServerHandler,
+		UnprotectedDebugSocket:     debugSocket,
 
 		listedPathProvider: apiServerHandler,
 
@@ -914,6 +922,13 @@ func installAPI(s *GenericAPIServer, c *Config) {
 		// so far, only logging related endpoints are considered valid to add for these debug flags.
 		routes.DebugFlags{}.Install(s.Handler.NonGoRestfulMux, "v", routes.StringFlagPutHandler(logs.GlogSetter))
 	}
+	if s.UnprotectedDebugSocket != nil {
+		s.UnprotectedDebugSocket.InstallProfiling()
+		s.UnprotectedDebugSocket.InstallDebugFlag("v", routes.StringFlagPutHandler(logs.GlogSetter))
+		if c.EnableContentionProfiling {
+			goruntime.SetBlockProfileRate(1)
+		}
+	}
 
 	if c.EnableMetrics {
 		if c.EnableProfiling {
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/genericapiserver.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/genericapiserver.go
index 2868187f012..7dad83f7e79 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/genericapiserver.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/genericapiserver.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer"
+	utilruntime "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets"
 	utilwaitgroup "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/waitgroup"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/version"
@@ -136,6 +137,10 @@ type GenericAPIServer struct {
 	// Handler holds the handlers being used by this API server
 	Handler *APIServerHandler
 
+	// UnprotectedDebugSocket is used to serve pprof information in a unix-domain socket. This socket is
+	// not protected by authentication/authorization.
+	UnprotectedDebugSocket *routes.DebugSocket
+
 	// listedPathProvider is a lister which provides the set of paths to show at /
 	listedPathProvider routes.ListedPathProvider
 
@@ -467,6 +472,14 @@ func (s preparedGenericAPIServer) Run(stopCh <-chan struct{}) error {
 	// Clean up resources on shutdown.
 	defer s.Destroy()
 
+	// If UDS profiling is enabled, start a local http server listening on that socket
+	if s.UnprotectedDebugSocket != nil {
+		go func() {
+			defer utilruntime.HandleCrash()
+			klog.Error(s.UnprotectedDebugSocket.Run(stopCh))
+		}()
+	}
+
 	// spawn a new goroutine for closing the MuxAndDiscoveryComplete signal
 	// registration happens during construction of the generic api server
 	// the last server in the chain aggregates signals from the previous instances
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/feature.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/feature.go
index e8a62418421..e87109bbd5a 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/feature.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/feature.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 
 type FeatureOptions struct {
 	EnableProfiling           bool
+	DebugSocketPath           string
 	EnableContentionProfiling bool
 }
 
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ func NewFeatureOptions() *FeatureOptions {
 
 	return &FeatureOptions{
 		EnableProfiling:           defaults.EnableProfiling,
+		DebugSocketPath:           defaults.DebugSocketPath,
 		EnableContentionProfiling: defaults.EnableContentionProfiling,
 	}
 }
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ func (o *FeatureOptions) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 		"Enable profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/")
 	fs.BoolVar(&o.EnableContentionProfiling, "contention-profiling", o.EnableContentionProfiling,
 		"Enable lock contention profiling, if profiling is enabled")
+	fs.StringVar(&o.DebugSocketPath, "debug-socket-path", o.DebugSocketPath,
+		"Use an unprotected (no authn/authz) unix-domain socket for profiling with the given path")
 }
 
 func (o *FeatureOptions) ApplyTo(c *server.Config) error {
@@ -54,6 +58,7 @@ func (o *FeatureOptions) ApplyTo(c *server.Config) error {
 	}
 
 	c.EnableProfiling = o.EnableProfiling
+	c.DebugSocketPath = o.DebugSocketPath
 	c.EnableContentionProfiling = o.EnableContentionProfiling
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/routes/debugsocket.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/routes/debugsocket.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e7297b35f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/routes/debugsocket.go
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/*
+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 routes
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/pprof"
+	"os"
+	"path"
+)
+
+// DebugSocket installs profiling and debugflag as a Unix-Domain socket.
+type DebugSocket struct {
+	path string
+	mux  *http.ServeMux
+}
+
+// NewDebugSocket creates a new DebugSocket for the given path.
+func NewDebugSocket(path string) *DebugSocket {
+	return &DebugSocket{
+		path: path,
+		mux:  http.NewServeMux(),
+	}
+}
+
+// InstallProfiling installs profiling endpoints in the socket.
+func (s *DebugSocket) InstallProfiling() {
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof", redirectTo("/debug/pprof/"))
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/", pprof.Index)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/cmdline", pprof.Cmdline)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/profile", pprof.Profile)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/symbol", pprof.Symbol)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/pprof/trace", pprof.Trace)
+}
+
+// InstallDebugFlag installs debug flag endpoints in the socket.
+func (s *DebugSocket) InstallDebugFlag(flag string, handler func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)) {
+	f := DebugFlags{}
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/flags", f.Index)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc("/debug/flags/", f.Index)
+
+	url := path.Join("/debug/flags", flag)
+	s.mux.HandleFunc(url, handler)
+
+	f.addFlag(flag)
+}
+
+// Run starts the server and waits for stopCh to be closed to close the server.
+func (s *DebugSocket) Run(stopCh <-chan struct{}) error {
+	if err := os.Remove(s.path); err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to remove (%v): %v", s.path, err)
+	}
+
+	l, err := net.Listen("unix", s.path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("listen error (%v): %v", s.path, err)
+	}
+	defer l.Close()
+
+	srv := http.Server{Handler: s.mux}
+	go func() {
+		<-stopCh
+		srv.Close()
+	}()
+	return srv.Serve(l)
+}