PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps generated by kube-state-metrics in RHOCP 4

Issue

• Alert PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps for kube-state-metrics is firing continuously in Observe > Alerting window of RHOCP web console:

  

• Prometheus-k8s pods running in openshift-monitoring project streams below logs:

  $ oc logs -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 | grep "kube-state-metrics"
  2025-01-21T07:29:54.440941285Z ts=2025-01-21T07:29:54.440Z caller=scrape.go:1744 level=warn component="scrape manager" scrape_pool=serviceMonitor/openshift-monitoring/kube-state-metrics/0 target=https://<pod-IP>:8443/metrics msg="Error on ingesting samples with different value but same timestamp" num_dropped=1