diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fbbe669a7..1d77deb45 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@ MULTI_ARCH_IMG = $(IMAGE)-$(ARCH)
 USER ?= $(shell id -u -n)
 HOST ?= $(shell hostname)
 MARKDOWNLINT_CLI2_VERSION = 0.18.1
+CLIENT_GO_VERSION = $(shell go list -m -f '{{.Version}}' k8s.io/client-go)
+KSM_MODULE = $(shell go list -m)
 
 DOCKER_CLI ?= docker
 PROMTOOL_CLI ?= promtool
-GOMPLATE_CLI ?= go tool github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate/v4/cmd/gomplate 
+GOMPLATE_CLI ?= go tool github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate/v4/cmd/gomplate
 GOJSONTOYAML_CLI ?= go tool github.com/brancz/gojsontoyaml
 EMBEDMD_CLI ?= go tool github.com/campoy/embedmd
 JSONNET_CLI ?= go tool github.com/google/go-jsonnet/cmd/jsonnet
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ doccheck: generate validate-template
 	@echo OK
 
 build-local:
-	GOOS=$(OS) GOARCH=$(ARCH) CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-s -w -X ${PKG}/version.Version=${TAG} -X ${PKG}/version.Revision=${GIT_COMMIT} -X ${PKG}/version.Branch=${BRANCH} -X ${PKG}/version.BuildUser=${USER}@${HOST} -X ${PKG}/version.BuildDate=${BUILD_DATE}" -o kube-state-metrics
+	GOOS=$(OS) GOARCH=$(ARCH) CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-s -w -X ${PKG}/version.Version=${TAG} -X ${PKG}/version.Revision=${GIT_COMMIT} -X ${PKG}/version.Branch=${BRANCH} -X ${PKG}/version.BuildUser=${USER}@${HOST} -X ${PKG}/version.BuildDate=${BUILD_DATE} -X ${PKG}/version.BuildDate=${BUILD_DATE} -X ${KSM_MODULE}/pkg/app.ClientGoVersion=${CLIENT_GO_VERSION}" -o kube-state-metrics
 
 build: kube-state-metrics
 
diff --git a/pkg/app/server.go b/pkg/app/server.go
index 31831ef73..a33ddf8e2 100644
--- a/pkg/app/server.go
+++ b/pkg/app/server.go
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/v2/pkg/util/proc"
 )
 
+// ClientGoVersion is the version for the client-go library used by KSM. This
+// value is set at build time using go build flags.
+var ClientGoVersion = "unknown"
+
 const (
 	metricsPath = "/metrics"
 	healthzPath = "/healthz"
@@ -86,6 +90,16 @@ func RunKubeStateMetricsWrapper(ctx context.Context, opts *options.Options) erro
 func RunKubeStateMetrics(ctx context.Context, opts *options.Options) error {
 	ksmMetricsRegistry := prometheus.NewRegistry()
 	ksmMetricsRegistry.MustRegister(versionCollector.NewCollector("kube_state_metrics"))
+
+	clientGoVersion := promauto.With(ksmMetricsRegistry).NewGaugeVec(
+		prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+			Name: "kube_state_metrics_client_go_info",
+			Help: "An info metric for the client-go version used by kube-state-metrics",
+		},
+		[]string{"version"},
+	)
+	clientGoVersion.WithLabelValues(ClientGoVersion).Set(1)
+
 	durationVec := promauto.With(ksmMetricsRegistry).NewHistogramVec(
 		prometheus.HistogramOpts{
 			Name:        "http_request_duration_seconds",