CCM failed requests can cause many issues with clusters. Using an invalid API token might be difficult to spot. Linode API outages can cause other unexpected problems if CCM is in turn unable to reconcile objects.
To help troubleshooting we should expose per-request metrics that allow monitoring and alerting on such issues. At minimum, there should be error counters and non-error counters, ideally per operation as this could help identifying the problem - rejected token or specific API call failing.