diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics.go
index ccc3cb8f039..aa7cabea2b3 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics.go
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ var (
 		&k8smetrics.CounterOpts{
 			Name:           "rest_client_requests_total",
 			StabilityLevel: k8smetrics.ALPHA,
-			Help:           "Number of HTTP requests, partitioned by status code, verb, and host.",
+			Help:           "Number of HTTP requests, partitioned by status code, method, and host.",
 		},
-		[]string{"code", "verb", "host"},
+		[]string{"code", "method", "host"},
 	)
 
 	requestRetry = k8smetrics.NewCounterVec(
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics_test.go
index 6a2bb923d24..577476f36ad 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/restclient/metrics_test.go
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ func TestClientGOMetrics(t *testing.T) {
 				metrics.RequestResult.Increment(context.TODO(), "200", "POST", "www.foo.com")
 			},
 			want: `
-			            # HELP rest_client_requests_total [ALPHA] Number of HTTP requests, partitioned by status code, verb, and host.
+			            # HELP rest_client_requests_total [ALPHA] Number of HTTP requests, partitioned by status code, method, and host.
 			            # TYPE rest_client_requests_total counter
-			            rest_client_requests_total{code="200",host="www.foo.com",verb="POST"} 1
+			            rest_client_requests_total{code="200",host="www.foo.com",method="POST"} 1
 				`,
 		},
 		{