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 9994796dcc3..d89249ff860 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -83,16 +83,7 @@ var (
 		&compbasemetrics.GaugeOpts{
 			Name:           "apiserver_longrunning_requests",
 			Help:           "Gauge of all active long-running apiserver requests broken out by verb, group, version, resource, scope and component. Not all requests are tracked this way.",
-			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.ALPHA,
-		},
-		[]string{"verb", "group", "version", "resource", "subresource", "scope", "component"},
-	)
-	longRunningRequestGauge = compbasemetrics.NewGaugeVec(
-		&compbasemetrics.GaugeOpts{
-			Name:              "apiserver_longrunning_gauge",
-			Help:              "Gauge of all active long-running apiserver requests broken out by verb, group, version, resource, scope and component. Not all requests are tracked this way.",
-			StabilityLevel:    compbasemetrics.ALPHA,
-			DeprecatedVersion: "1.23.0",
+			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.STABLE,
 		},
 		[]string{"verb", "group", "version", "resource", "subresource", "scope", "component"},
 	)
@@ -271,7 +262,6 @@ var (
 		deprecatedRequestGauge,
 		requestCounter,
 		longRunningRequestsGauge,
-		longRunningRequestGauge,
 		requestLatencies,
 		requestSloLatencies,
 		fieldValidationRequestLatencies,
@@ -474,7 +464,7 @@ func RecordLongRunning(req *http.Request, requestInfo *request.RequestInfo, comp
 	if requestInfo == nil {
 		requestInfo = &request.RequestInfo{Verb: req.Method, Path: req.URL.Path}
 	}
-	var g, e compbasemetrics.GaugeMetric
+	var g compbasemetrics.GaugeMetric
 	scope := CleanScope(requestInfo)
 
 	// We don't use verb from <requestInfo>, as this may be propagated from
@@ -484,18 +474,12 @@ func RecordLongRunning(req *http.Request, requestInfo *request.RequestInfo, comp
 	reportedVerb := cleanVerb(CanonicalVerb(strings.ToUpper(req.Method), scope), getVerbIfWatch(req), req)
 
 	if requestInfo.IsResourceRequest {
-		e = longRunningRequestsGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, requestInfo.APIGroup, requestInfo.APIVersion, requestInfo.Resource, requestInfo.Subresource, scope, component)
-		g = longRunningRequestGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, requestInfo.APIGroup, requestInfo.APIVersion, requestInfo.Resource, requestInfo.Subresource, scope, component)
+		g = longRunningRequestsGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, requestInfo.APIGroup, requestInfo.APIVersion, requestInfo.Resource, requestInfo.Subresource, scope, component)
 	} else {
-		e = longRunningRequestsGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, "", "", "", requestInfo.Path, scope, component)
-		g = longRunningRequestGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, "", "", "", requestInfo.Path, scope, component)
+		g = longRunningRequestsGauge.WithContext(req.Context()).WithLabelValues(reportedVerb, "", "", "", requestInfo.Path, scope, component)
 	}
-	e.Inc()
 	g.Inc()
-	defer func() {
-		e.Dec()
-		g.Dec()
-	}()
+	defer g.Dec()
 	fn()
 }
 
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml b/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
index bcd3ff4c739..980905c4957 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
+++ b/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
@@ -202,6 +202,19 @@
   stabilityLevel: STABLE
   labels:
   - request_kind
+- name: apiserver_longrunning_requests
+  help: Gauge of all active long-running apiserver requests broken out by verb, group,
+    version, resource, scope and component. Not all requests are tracked this way.
+  type: Gauge
+  stabilityLevel: STABLE
+  labels:
+  - component
+  - group
+  - resource
+  - scope
+  - subresource
+  - verb
+  - version
 - name: apiserver_request_duration_seconds
   help: Response latency distribution in seconds for each verb, dry run value, group,
     version, resource, subresource, scope and component.