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Collecting etcd metrics
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Adding etcd metrics to performance test log.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
ref #64030
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
```release-note
NONE
```
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Fixing scheduling latency metrics
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Allows to measure and to display scheduling latency metrics during tests. Provides new functionality of resetting scheduler latency metrics.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes#63493
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
E2eSchedulingLatency, SchedulingAlgorithmLatency, BindingLatency are now available
as subtypes of OperationLatency.
**Release note**:
```release-note
NONE
```
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Drop reapers
/assign @deads2k @juanvallejo
**Release note**:
```release-note
kubectl delete does not use reapers for removing objects anymore, but relies on server-side GC entirely
```
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should use time.Since instead of time.Now().Sub
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
should use time.Since instead of time.Now().Sub
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
note that we don't change the behaviour of kubectl.
For example it won't scale new resources. That's the end goal.
The first step is to retrofit existing code to use the generic scaler.
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Add performance test phase timing export.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
First step totwards allowing us to get a quick overview of test length
via perf-dash.k8s.io.
**Release note**:
```release-note
NONE
```
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Shyam Jeedigunta