The Kubernetes Control Plane is a critical component of the cluster, responsible for managing the worker nodes and ensuring the desired state of the cluster. Datadog has introduced new integrations to monitor the Control Plane, providing visibility into its performance, including real-time data on workload and latency. The integrations cover the API Server, Controller Manager, Scheduler, and etcd, offering metrics such as request rates, goroutines, threads, and proposal counts. Monitoring these components enables rapid troubleshooting of scheduling and orchestration issues and provides insights into cluster-wide performance. The new integrations are available with Datadog's Agent version 6.12 and can be configured to collect metrics from the Control Plane.