
This API has been discussed ad nauseam across several forums, and this API represents the latest conclusion. In summary, we will provide this API as temporary solution for providing the new stats required for 1.2. In the longterm this API will be split into "essential" stats, which will be provided by a first-party API served through the kubelet, and "non-essential" (monitoring) stats, which will be provided by a 3rd party API served from a pod.