diff --git a/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring.go b/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring.go
index 910f955807e..0bc394ae51e 100644
--- a/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring.go
+++ b/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring.go
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ const (
 	monitoringMetricApiserverCRDWebhookConversionDurationSeconds         = "apiserver_crd_webhook_conversion_duration_seconds_.+"
 	monitoringMetricApiserverCurrentInflightRequests                     = "apiserver_current_inflight_requests"
 	monitoringMetricApiserverCurrentInqueueRequests                      = "apiserver_current_inqueue_requests"
+	monitoringMetricApiserverLongrunningRequests                         = "apiserver_longrunning_requests"
 	monitoringMetricApiserverResponseSizes                               = "apiserver_response_sizes_.+"
 	monitoringMetricApiserverRegisteredWatchers                          = "apiserver_registered_watchers"
 	monitoringMetricApiserverRequestDurationSeconds                      = "apiserver_request_duration_seconds_.+"
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ var (
 		monitoringMetricApiserverCRDWebhookConversionDurationSeconds,
 		monitoringMetricApiserverCurrentInflightRequests,
 		monitoringMetricApiserverCurrentInqueueRequests,
+		monitoringMetricApiserverLongrunningRequests,
 		monitoringMetricApiserverResponseSizes,
 		monitoringMetricApiserverRegisteredWatchers,
 		monitoringMetricApiserverRequestDurationSeconds,
diff --git a/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring_test.go b/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring_test.go
index fafd4265cc6..a06af9814a1 100644
--- a/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring_test.go
+++ b/pkg/operation/botanist/component/kubeapiserver/monitoring_test.go
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ relabel_configs:
 metric_relabel_configs:
 - source_labels: [ __name__ ]
   action: keep
-  regex: ^(authentication_attempts|authenticated_user_requests|apiserver_admission_controller_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_webhook_rejection_count|apiserver_audit_event_total|apiserver_audit_error_total|apiserver_audit_requests_rejected_total|apiserver_latency_seconds|apiserver_crd_webhook_conversion_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_current_inflight_requests|apiserver_current_inqueue_requests|apiserver_response_sizes_.+|apiserver_registered_watchers|apiserver_request_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_request_terminations_total|apiserver_request_total|apiserver_request_count|apiserver_storage_transformation_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_storage_transformation_operations_total|apiserver_init_events_total|apiserver_watch_events_sizes_.+|apiserver_watch_events_total|etcd_db_total_size_in_bytes|apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes|etcd_object_counts|apiserver_storage_objects|etcd_request_duration_seconds_.+|go_.+|process_max_fds|process_open_fds|watch_cache_capacity_increase_total|watch_cache_capacity_decrease_total|watch_cache_capacity|apiserver_cache_list_.+|apiserver_storage_list_.+)$
+  regex: ^(authentication_attempts|authenticated_user_requests|apiserver_admission_controller_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_admission_webhook_rejection_count|apiserver_audit_event_total|apiserver_audit_error_total|apiserver_audit_requests_rejected_total|apiserver_latency_seconds|apiserver_crd_webhook_conversion_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_current_inflight_requests|apiserver_current_inqueue_requests|apiserver_longrunning_requests|apiserver_response_sizes_.+|apiserver_registered_watchers|apiserver_request_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_request_terminations_total|apiserver_request_total|apiserver_request_count|apiserver_storage_transformation_duration_seconds_.+|apiserver_storage_transformation_operations_total|apiserver_init_events_total|apiserver_watch_events_sizes_.+|apiserver_watch_events_total|etcd_db_total_size_in_bytes|apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes|etcd_object_counts|apiserver_storage_objects|etcd_request_duration_seconds_.+|go_.+|process_max_fds|process_open_fds|watch_cache_capacity_increase_total|watch_cache_capacity_decrease_total|watch_cache_capacity|apiserver_cache_list_.+|apiserver_storage_list_.+)$
 `
 
 	expectedAlertingRule = `groups: