diff --git a/environment/deployments/roundtable/env/production-gke.tfvars b/environment/deployments/roundtable/env/production-gke.tfvars
index 1e1e8075..ed30ccf2 100644
--- a/environment/deployments/roundtable/env/production-gke.tfvars
+++ b/environment/deployments/roundtable/env/production-gke.tfvars
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ monitoring_enabled_components = [
 
   # Gets us sum of requests/limits per node
   "SCHEDULER",
+
+  # Gets us Kubernetes API server metrics, to help diagnose errors in our
+  # controllers
+  "APISERVER",
 ]
 
 gke_backup_agent_config = true
diff --git a/environment/deployments/science-platform/env/production-gke.tfvars b/environment/deployments/science-platform/env/production-gke.tfvars
index 840c4672..c947c5b0 100644
--- a/environment/deployments/science-platform/env/production-gke.tfvars
+++ b/environment/deployments/science-platform/env/production-gke.tfvars
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ monitoring_enabled_components = [
 
   # Gets us sum of requests/limits per node
   "SCHEDULER",
+
+  # Gets us Kubernetes API server metrics, to help diagnose errors in our
+  # controllers
+  "APISERVER",
 ]
 
 gke_backup_agent_config = true