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 a278566438c..54321cddbcb 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ var (
 		&compbasemetrics.GaugeOpts{
 			Name:           "apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis",
 			Help:           "Gauge of deprecated APIs that have been requested, broken out by API group, version, resource, subresource, and removed_release.",
-			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.ALPHA,
+			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.STABLE,
 		},
 		[]string{"group", "version", "resource", "subresource", "removed_release"},
 	)
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml b/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
index a857a6efb3b..7b4f87231a0 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
+++ b/test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml
@@ -65,6 +65,17 @@
   - subresource
   - verb
   - version
+- name: apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis
+  help: Gauge of deprecated APIs that have been requested, broken out by API group,
+    version, resource, subresource, and removed_release.
+  type: Gauge
+  stabilityLevel: STABLE
+  labels:
+  - group
+  - removed_release
+  - resource
+  - subresource
+  - version
 - name: apiserver_storage_objects
   help: Number of stored objects at the time of last check split by kind.
   type: Gauge