diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/etcd3/metrics/metrics.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/etcd3/metrics/metrics.go
index a944e4478e7..c97a4afc823 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/etcd3/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/etcd3/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ var (
 	etcdObjectCounts = compbasemetrics.NewGaugeVec(
 		&compbasemetrics.GaugeOpts{
 			Name:              "etcd_object_counts",
-			DeprecatedVersion: "1.21.0",
+			DeprecatedVersion: "1.22.0",
 			Help:              "Number of stored objects at the time of last check split by kind. This metric is replaced by apiserver_storage_object_counts.",
 			StabilityLevel:    compbasemetrics.ALPHA,
 		},