What happened:

I am not able to add additional pod and deployment labels into the metrics exported by KSM. I have setup KSM via helm inside AWS EKS. Below is the change I made in the values file to add allow the additional label for pods

metricLabelsAllowlist:
- pods=[deplEnv]

Here deplEnv is the label key. When I apply this change in the values file, I am seeing this extra args being passed in the deployment. When I port forward the KSM service I am not able to see this label in any of the metrics on the /metrics page.

What you expected to happen:

Label with the key deplEnv visible in the pod and deployment metrics

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Apply the kube-state-metrics helm chart in AWS EKS(version 1.27) with the change mentioned above in the values file and then port forward the service

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• kube-state-metrics version: 2.10.1
• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.27
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: AWS EKS
• Other info: