diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/certificate/kubelet.go b/pkg/kubelet/certificate/kubelet.go
index af2d21717dc..cb2ac2a4cd7 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/certificate/kubelet.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/certificate/kubelet.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ func NewKubeletServerCertificateManager(kubeClient clientset.Interface, kubeCfg
 			Subsystem:      metrics.KubeletSubsystem,
 			Name:           "server_expiration_renew_errors",
 			Help:           "Counter of certificate renewal errors.",
-			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.ALPHA,
+			StabilityLevel: compbasemetrics.STABLE,
 		},
 	)
 	legacyregistry.MustRegister(certificateRenewFailure)
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go b/test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go
index 721ab9738b1..3f738b1edae 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go
+++ b/test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"go/ast"
 	"go/token"
+	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -182,7 +183,24 @@ func (c *metricDecoder) decodeOpts(expr ast.Expr) (metric, error) {
 				if err != nil {
 					return m, err
 				}
+			case *ast.SelectorExpr:
+				packageName := fmt.Sprintf("%v", v.X)
+
+				variableExpr, found := c.variables[packageName + "." + v.Sel.Name]
+				if !found {
+					return m, newDecodeErrorf(expr, errBadVariableAttribute)
+				}
+				bl, ok := variableExpr.(*ast.BasicLit)
+				if !ok {
+					return m, newDecodeErrorf(expr, errNonStringAttribute)
+				}
+				value, err = stringValue(bl)
+				if err != nil {
+					return m, err
+				}
+
 			default:
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "key %s is type %T from Default\n", key, v)
 				return m, newDecodeErrorf(expr, errNonStringAttribute)
 			}
 			switch key {
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/error.go b/test/instrumentation/error.go
index bc3942522d8..8fef4f643c2 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/error.go
+++ b/test/instrumentation/error.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const (
 	errStabilityLevel       = "StabilityLevel should be passed STABLE, ALPHA or removed"
 	errStableSummary        = "Stable summary metric is not supported"
 	errInvalidNewMetricCall = "Invalid new metric call, please ensure code compiles"
-	errNonStringAttribute   = "Non string attribute it not supported"
+	errNonStringAttribute   = "Non string attribute is not supported"
 	errBadVariableAttribute = "Metric attribute was not correctly set. Please use only global consts in same file"
 	errFieldNotSupported    = "Field %s is not supported"
 	errBuckets              = "Buckets should be set to list of floats, result from function call of prometheus.LinearBuckets or prometheus.ExponentialBuckets"
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/main.go b/test/instrumentation/main.go
index 961cbac95df..cb350b5d889 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/main.go
+++ b/test/instrumentation/main.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"go/ast"
 	"go/parser"
 	"go/token"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
@@ -124,6 +125,11 @@ func searchFileForStableMetrics(filename string, src interface{}) ([]metric, []e
 	}
 	variables := globalVariableDeclarations(tree)
 
+	variables, err = importedGlobalVariableDeclaration(variables, tree.Imports)
+	if err != nil {
+		return []metric{}, addFileInformationToErrors([]error{err}, fileset)
+	}
+
 	stableMetricsFunctionCalls, errors := findStableMetricDeclaration(tree, metricsImportName)
 	metrics, es := decodeMetricCalls(stableMetricsFunctionCalls, metricsImportName, variables)
 	errors = append(errors, es...)
@@ -173,3 +179,100 @@ func globalVariableDeclarations(tree *ast.File) map[string]ast.Expr {
 	}
 	return consts
 }
+
+func importedGlobalVariableDeclaration(localVariables map[string]ast.Expr, imports []*ast.ImportSpec) (map[string]ast.Expr, error) {
+	// to test the import will be rooted at GOPATH, so probably import will be something like /test/instrumentation/testpackage
+
+	// env gets
+	//GOMODCACHE := os.Getenv("GOMODCACHE")
+	GOROOT := os.Getenv("GOROOT")
+	GOOS := os.Getenv("GOOS")
+	KUBE_ROOT := os.Getenv("KUBE_ROOT")
+	KUBE_URL_ROOT := "k8s.io/kubernetes"
+	KUBE_ROOT_INTERNAL := strings.Replace(KUBE_ROOT, KUBE_URL_ROOT, "", 1) // k8s/k8s refs need this stripped
+	
+	for _, im := range imports {
+		// get imported label
+		importAlias := "unknown"
+		if im.Name == nil {
+			pathSegments := strings.Split(im.Path.Value, "/")
+			importAlias = strings.Trim(pathSegments[len(pathSegments)-1], "\"")
+		} else {
+			importAlias = im.Name.String()
+		}
+
+		// parse directory path
+		pathPrefix := "unknown"
+		if strings.Contains(im.Path.Value, KUBE_URL_ROOT) {
+			// search k/k local checkout
+			pathPrefix = KUBE_ROOT_INTERNAL
+		} else if strings.Contains(im.Path.Value, "k8s.io/") {
+			// search k/k/staging local checkout
+			pathPrefix = KUBE_ROOT + string(os.PathSeparator) + "staging" + string(os.PathSeparator) + "src"  //KUBE_ROOT + string(os.PathSeparator) + "vendor" //
+		} else if strings.Contains(im.Path.Value, ".") {
+			// not stdlib -> prefix with GOMODCACHE
+			// pathPrefix = KUBE_ROOT + string(os.PathSeparator) + "vendor"
+
+			//  this requires implementing SIV, skip for now
+			continue
+		} else {
+			// stdlib -> prefix with GOROOT
+			pathPrefix = GOROOT + string(os.PathSeparator) + "src"
+		} // ToDo: support non go mod
+		importDirectory := pathPrefix + string(os.PathSeparator) + strings.Trim(im.Path.Value, "\"")
+
+		files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(importDirectory)
+		if err != nil {
+			//fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to read import path directory %s with error %w, skipping\n", importDirectory, err)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		for _, file := range files {
+			if file.IsDir() {
+				// do not grab constants from subpackages
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if strings.Contains(file.Name(), "_test") {
+				// do not parse test files
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if !strings.HasSuffix(file.Name(), ".go") {
+				// not a go code file, do not attempt to parse
+				continue
+			}
+
+			fileset := token.NewFileSet()
+			tree, err := parser.ParseFile(fileset, importDirectory+string(os.PathSeparator)+file.Name(), nil, parser.AllErrors)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse path %s with error %w", im.Path.Value, err)
+			}
+
+			// pass parsed filepath into globalVariableDeclarations
+			variables := globalVariableDeclarations(tree)
+
+			// add returned map into supplied map and prepend import label to all keys
+			for k, v := range variables {
+				importK := importAlias + "." + k
+				if _, ok := localVariables[importK]; !ok {
+					localVariables[importK] = v
+				} else {
+					// cross-platform file that gets included in the correct OS build via OS build tags
+					// use whatever matches GOOS
+
+					if strings.Contains(file.Name(), GOOS) {
+						// assume at some point we will find the correct OS version of this file
+						// if we are running on an OS that does not have an OS specific file for something then we will include a constant we shouldn't
+						// TODO: should we include/exclude based on the build tags?
+						localVariables[importK] = v
+					}
+
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	return localVariables, nil
+}
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/stability-utils.sh b/test/instrumentation/stability-utils.sh
index 4a80f629b11..f1dd406df42 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/stability-utils.sh
+++ b/test/instrumentation/stability-utils.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ reset=$(tput sgr0)
 kube::validate::stablemetrics() {
   stability_check_setup
   temp_file=$(mktemp)
-  doValidate=$(find_files_to_check | grep -E ".*.go" | grep -v ".*_test.go" | sort | xargs -L 200 go run "test/instrumentation/main.go" "test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go" "test/instrumentation/find_stable_metric.go" "test/instrumentation/error.go" "test/instrumentation/metric.go" -- 1>"${temp_file}")
+  doValidate=$(find_files_to_check | grep -E ".*.go" | grep -v ".*_test.go" | sort | KUBE_ROOT=${KUBE_ROOT} xargs -L 200 go run "test/instrumentation/main.go" "test/instrumentation/decode_metric.go" "test/instrumentation/find_stable_metric.go" "test/instrumentation/error.go" "test/instrumentation/metric.go" -- 1>"${temp_file}")
 
   if $doValidate; then
     echo -e "${green}Diffing test/instrumentation/testdata/stable-metrics-list.yaml\n${reset}"