diff --git a/test/e2e_node/BUILD b/test/e2e_node/BUILD
index e2aa5b90bd9..d3bd5b5b7ef 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e_node/BUILD
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ go_test(
         "//pkg/kubelet:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/apis/config:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/apis/podresources/v1alpha1:go_default_library",
-        "//pkg/kubelet/apis/resourcemetrics/v1alpha1:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/apis/stats/v1alpha1:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/cm:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager:go_default_library",
diff --git a/test/e2e_node/resource_metrics_test.go b/test/e2e_node/resource_metrics_test.go
index 215ef1e400d..c57b4eb9553 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/resource_metrics_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e_node/resource_metrics_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
-	kubeletresourcemetricsv1alpha1 "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/resourcemetrics/v1alpha1"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
 	e2ekubectl "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/kubectl"
 	e2emetrics "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/metrics"
@@ -41,16 +40,16 @@ const (
 	maxStatsAge = time.Minute
 )
 
-var _ = framework.KubeDescribe("ResourceMetricsAPI", func() {
+var _ = framework.KubeDescribe("ResourceMetricsAPI [NodeFeature:ResourceMetrics]", func() {
 	f := framework.NewDefaultFramework("resource-metrics")
 	ginkgo.Context("when querying /resource/metrics", func() {
 		ginkgo.BeforeEach(func() {
-			ginkgo.By("Creating test pods")
+			ginkgo.By("Creating test pods to measure their resource usage")
 			numRestarts := int32(1)
 			pods := getSummaryTestPods(f, numRestarts, pod0, pod1)
 			f.PodClient().CreateBatch(pods)
 
-			ginkgo.By("Waiting for test pods to restart the desired number of times")
+			ginkgo.By("restarting the containers to ensure container metrics are still being gathered after a container is restarted")
 			gomega.Eventually(func() error {
 				for _, pod := range pods {
 					err := verifyPodRestartCount(f, pod.Name, len(pod.Spec.Containers), numRestarts)
@@ -64,13 +63,13 @@ var _ = framework.KubeDescribe("ResourceMetricsAPI", func() {
 			ginkgo.By("Waiting 15 seconds for cAdvisor to collect 2 stats points")
 			time.Sleep(15 * time.Second)
 		})
-		ginkgo.It("should report resource usage through the v1alpha1 resouce metrics api", func() {
-			ginkgo.By("Fetching node so we can know proper node memory bounds for unconstrained cgroups")
+		ginkgo.It("should report resource usage through the resouce metrics api", func() {
+			ginkgo.By("Fetching node so we can match against an appropriate memory limit")
 			node := getLocalNode(f)
 			memoryCapacity := node.Status.Capacity["memory"]
 			memoryLimit := memoryCapacity.Value()
 
-			matchV1alpha1Expectations := gstruct.MatchAllKeys(gstruct.Keys{
+			matchResourceMetrics := gstruct.MatchAllKeys(gstruct.Keys{
 				"scrape_error": gstruct.Ignore(),
 				"node_cpu_usage_seconds_total": gstruct.MatchAllElements(nodeID, gstruct.Elements{
 					"": boundedSample(1, 1e6),
@@ -90,14 +89,15 @@ var _ = framework.KubeDescribe("ResourceMetricsAPI", func() {
 				}),
 			})
 			ginkgo.By("Giving pods a minute to start up and produce metrics")
-			gomega.Eventually(getV1alpha1ResourceMetrics, 1*time.Minute, 15*time.Second).Should(matchV1alpha1Expectations)
+			gomega.Eventually(getResourceMetrics, 1*time.Minute, 15*time.Second).Should(matchResourceMetrics)
 			ginkgo.By("Ensuring the metrics match the expectations a few more times")
-			gomega.Consistently(getV1alpha1ResourceMetrics, 1*time.Minute, 15*time.Second).Should(matchV1alpha1Expectations)
+			gomega.Consistently(getResourceMetrics, 1*time.Minute, 15*time.Second).Should(matchResourceMetrics)
 		})
 		ginkgo.AfterEach(func() {
 			ginkgo.By("Deleting test pods")
-			f.PodClient().DeleteSync(pod0, metav1.DeleteOptions{}, 10*time.Minute)
-			f.PodClient().DeleteSync(pod1, metav1.DeleteOptions{}, 10*time.Minute)
+			var zero int64 = 0
+			f.PodClient().DeleteSync(pod0, metav1.DeleteOptions{GracePeriodSeconds: &zero}, 10*time.Minute)
+			f.PodClient().DeleteSync(pod1, metav1.DeleteOptions{GracePeriodSeconds: &zero}, 10*time.Minute)
 			if !ginkgo.CurrentGinkgoTestDescription().Failed {
 				return
 			}
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ var _ = framework.KubeDescribe("ResourceMetricsAPI", func() {
 	})
 })
 
-func getV1alpha1ResourceMetrics() (e2emetrics.KubeletMetrics, error) {
-	return e2emetrics.GrabKubeletMetricsWithoutProxy(framework.TestContext.NodeName+":10255", "/metrics/resource/"+kubeletresourcemetricsv1alpha1.Version)
+func getResourceMetrics() (e2emetrics.KubeletMetrics, error) {
+	ginkgo.By("getting stable resource metrics API")
+	return e2emetrics.GrabKubeletMetricsWithoutProxy(framework.TestContext.NodeName+":10255", "/metrics/resource")
 }
 
 func nodeID(element interface{}) string {