diff --git a/cmd/integration/integration.go b/cmd/integration/integration.go
index 7e72a0cff03..2f682241079 100644
--- a/cmd/integration/integration.go
+++ b/cmd/integration/integration.go
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/scheduler"
 	_ "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/scheduler/algorithmprovider"
 	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/scheduler/factory"
+	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/test/e2e"
 	docker "github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
 
 	"github.com/coreos/go-etcd/etcd"
@@ -1000,6 +1001,11 @@ func main() {
 	// parallel and also it schedules extra pods which would change the
 	// above pod counting logic.
 	runSchedulerNoPhantomPodsTest(kubeClient)
+
+	glog.Infof("\n\nLogging high latency metrics from the 10250 kubelet")
+	e2e.HighLatencyKubeletOperations(nil, 1*time.Second, "localhost:10250")
+	glog.Infof("\n\nLogging high latency metrics from the 10251 kubelet")
+	e2e.HighLatencyKubeletOperations(nil, 1*time.Second, "localhost:10251")
 }
 
 // ServeCachedManifestFile serves a file for kubelet to read.
diff --git a/test/e2e/kubelet_stats.go b/test/e2e/kubelet_stats.go
index 6ac28f865ce..049a6c877b7 100644
--- a/test/e2e/kubelet_stats.go
+++ b/test/e2e/kubelet_stats.go
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ package e2e
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -49,14 +51,9 @@ func (a KubeletMetricByLatency) Swap(i, j int)      { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
 func (a KubeletMetricByLatency) Less(i, j int) bool { return a[i].Latency > a[j].Latency }
 
 // ReadKubeletMetrics reads metrics from the kubelet server running on the given node
-func ReadKubeletMetrics(c *client.Client, nodeName string) ([]KubeletMetric, error) {
-	body, err := getKubeletMetrics(c, nodeName)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
+func ParseKubeletMetrics(metricsBlob string) ([]KubeletMetric, error) {
 	metric := make([]KubeletMetric, 0)
-	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(body), "\n") {
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(metricsBlob, "\n") {
 
 		// A kubelet stats line starts with the KubeletSubsystem marker, followed by a stat name, followed by fields
 		// that vary by stat described on a case by case basis below.
@@ -96,6 +93,10 @@ func ReadKubeletMetrics(c *client.Client, nodeName string) ([]KubeletMetric, err
 			rawQuantile = keyElems[5]
 			break
 
+		case metrics.PodWorkerStartLatencyKey:
+			// eg: kubelet_pod_worker_start_latency_microseconds{quantile="0.99"} 12
+			fallthrough
+
 		case metrics.SyncPodsLatencyKey:
 			// eg:  kubelet_sync_pods_latency_microseconds{quantile="0.5"} 9949
 			fallthrough
@@ -143,7 +144,18 @@ func ReadKubeletMetrics(c *client.Client, nodeName string) ([]KubeletMetric, err
 
 // HighLatencyKubeletOperations logs and counts the high latency metrics exported by the kubelet server via /metrics.
 func HighLatencyKubeletOperations(c *client.Client, threshold time.Duration, nodeName string) ([]KubeletMetric, error) {
-	metric, err := ReadKubeletMetrics(c, nodeName)
+	var metricsBlob string
+	var err error
+	// If we haven't been given a client try scraping the nodename directly for a /metrics endpoint.
+	if c == nil {
+		metricsBlob, err = getKubeletMetricsThroughNode(nodeName)
+	} else {
+		metricsBlob, err = getKubeletMetricsThroughProxy(c, nodeName)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return []KubeletMetric{}, err
+	}
+	metric, err := ParseKubeletMetrics(metricsBlob)
 	if err != nil {
 		return []KubeletMetric{}, err
 	}
@@ -160,7 +172,7 @@ func HighLatencyKubeletOperations(c *client.Client, threshold time.Duration, nod
 }
 
 // Retrieve metrics from the kubelet server of the given node.
-func getKubeletMetrics(c *client.Client, node string) (string, error) {
+func getKubeletMetricsThroughProxy(c *client.Client, node string) (string, error) {
 	metric, err := c.Get().
 		Prefix("proxy").
 		Resource("nodes").
@@ -173,3 +185,18 @@ func getKubeletMetrics(c *client.Client, node string) (string, error) {
 	}
 	return string(metric), nil
 }
+
+// Retrieve metrics from the kubelet on the given node using a simple GET over http.
+// Currently only used in integration tests.
+func getKubeletMetricsThroughNode(nodeName string) (string, error) {
+	resp, err := http.Get(fmt.Sprintf("http://%v/metrics", nodeName))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return string(body), nil
+}