diff --git a/src/renderer/api/endpoints/pod-metrics.api.ts b/src/renderer/api/endpoints/pod-metrics.api.ts
index acf6e7b20f..23b8040605 100644
--- a/src/renderer/api/endpoints/pod-metrics.api.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/api/endpoints/pod-metrics.api.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { KubeObject } from "../kube-object";
 import { KubeApi } from "../kube-api";
 
 export class PodMetrics extends KubeObject {
-  static kind = "Pod";
+  static kind = "PodMetricsList";
   static namespaced = true;
   static apiBase = "/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/pods";
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/api/kube-object.ts b/src/renderer/api/kube-object.ts
index 8699a3c94f..c7869533bc 100644
--- a/src/renderer/api/kube-object.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/api/kube-object.ts
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export class KubeObject implements ItemObject {
   static isKubeJsonApiListMetadata(object: unknown): object is KubeJsonApiListMetadata {
     return (
       isObject(object)
-      && hasTypedProperty(object, "resourceVersion", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "resourceVersion", isString)
       && hasOptionalProperty(object, "selfLink", isString)
     );
   }
@@ -112,12 +112,28 @@ export class KubeObject implements ItemObject {
     );
   }
 
+  static isPartialJsonApiMetadata(object: unknown): object is Partial<KubeJsonApiMetadata> {
+    return (
+      isObject(object)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "uid", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "name", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "resourceVersion", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "selfLink", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "namespace", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "creationTimestamp", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "continue", isString)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "finalizers", bindPredicate(isTypedArray, isString))
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "labels", bindPredicate(isRecord, isString, isString))
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "annotations", bindPredicate(isRecord, isString, isString))
+    );
+  }
+
   static isPartialJsonApiData(object: unknown): object is Partial<KubeJsonApiData> {
     return (
       isObject(object)
       && hasOptionalProperty(object, "kind", isString)
       && hasOptionalProperty(object, "apiVersion", isString)
-      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "metadata", KubeObject.isKubeJsonApiMetadata)
+      && hasOptionalProperty(object, "metadata", KubeObject.isPartialJsonApiMetadata)
     );
   }