diff --git a/pkg/apiserver/metrics/metrics.go b/pkg/apiserver/metrics/metrics.go
index fb7736b0678..dc7fe7009ae 100644
--- a/pkg/apiserver/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/apiserver/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ var (
 	requestCounter = prometheus.NewCounterVec(
 		prometheus.CounterOpts{
 			Name: "apiserver_request_count",
-			Help: "Counter of apiserver requests broken out for each verb, API resource, client, and HTTP response code.",
+			Help: "Counter of apiserver requests broken out for each verb, API resource, client, and HTTP response contentType and code.",
 		},
-		[]string{"verb", "resource", "client", "code"},
+		[]string{"verb", "resource", "client", "contentType", "code"},
 	)
 	requestLatencies = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
 		prometheus.HistogramOpts{
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ func Register() {
 	prometheus.MustRegister(requestLatenciesSummary)
 }
 
-func Monitor(verb, resource *string, client string, httpCode int, reqStart time.Time) {
+func Monitor(verb, resource *string, client, contentType string, httpCode int, reqStart time.Time) {
 	elapsed := float64((time.Since(reqStart)) / time.Microsecond)
-	requestCounter.WithLabelValues(*verb, *resource, client, codeToString(httpCode)).Inc()
+	requestCounter.WithLabelValues(*verb, *resource, client, contentType, codeToString(httpCode)).Inc()
 	requestLatencies.WithLabelValues(*verb, *resource).Observe(elapsed)
 	requestLatenciesSummary.WithLabelValues(*verb, *resource).Observe(elapsed)
 }
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ func InstrumentRouteFunc(verb, resource string, routeFunc restful.RouteFunction)
 		response.ResponseWriter = rw
 
 		routeFunc(request, response)
-		Monitor(&verb, &resource, utilnet.GetHTTPClient(request.Request), delegate.status, now)
+		Monitor(&verb, &resource, utilnet.GetHTTPClient(request.Request), rw.Header().Get("Content-Type"), delegate.status, now)
 	})
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/apiserver/proxy.go b/pkg/apiserver/proxy.go
index 5c581032bec..4b3d00d77de 100644
--- a/pkg/apiserver/proxy.go
+++ b/pkg/apiserver/proxy.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func (r *ProxyHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 	var apiResource string
 	var httpCode int
 	reqStart := time.Now()
-	defer metrics.Monitor(&verb, &apiResource, net.GetHTTPClient(req), httpCode, reqStart)
+	defer metrics.Monitor(&verb, &apiResource, net.GetHTTPClient(req), w.Header().Get("Content-Type"), httpCode, reqStart)
 
 	requestInfo, err := r.requestInfoResolver.GetRequestInfo(req)
 	if err != nil || !requestInfo.IsResourceRequest {
diff --git a/pkg/client/typed/dynamic/client_pool.go b/pkg/client/typed/dynamic/client_pool.go
index 4bdd3ecabb7..f7c6505fd77 100644
--- a/pkg/client/typed/dynamic/client_pool.go
+++ b/pkg/client/typed/dynamic/client_pool.go
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ type clientPoolImpl struct {
 
 // NewClientPool returns a ClientPool from the specified config
 func NewClientPool(config *restclient.Config, apiPathResolverFunc APIPathResolverFunc) ClientPool {
+	confCopy := *config
 	return &clientPoolImpl{
-		config:              config,
+		config:              &confCopy,
 		clients:             map[unversioned.GroupVersion]*Client{},
 		apiPathResolverFunc: apiPathResolverFunc,
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/metrics/api_server_metrics.go b/pkg/metrics/api_server_metrics.go
index e905ab4b94c..952572ae697 100644
--- a/pkg/metrics/api_server_metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/metrics/api_server_metrics.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 var KnownApiServerMetrics = map[string][]string{
-	"apiserver_request_count":                        {"verb", "resource", "client", "code"},
+	"apiserver_request_count":                        {"verb", "resource", "client", "contentType", "code"},
 	"apiserver_request_latencies_bucket":             {"verb", "resource", "le"},
 	"apiserver_request_latencies_count":              {"verb", "resource"},
 	"apiserver_request_latencies_sum":                {"verb", "resource"},