diff --git a/plugin/kubernetes/controller.go b/plugin/kubernetes/controller.go
index 890785d71..f17576eb4 100644
--- a/plugin/kubernetes/controller.go
+++ b/plugin/kubernetes/controller.go
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/coredns/coredns/plugin/kubernetes/object"
 
 	api "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
+	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1"
+	discoveryV1beta1 "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
 	meta "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
@@ -180,6 +181,23 @@ func (dns *dnsControl) WatchEndpoints(ctx context.Context) {
 	dns.epLock.Unlock()
 }
 
+// WatchEndpointSliceV1beta1 will set the endpoint Lister and Controller to watch v1beta1
+// instead of the default v1.
+func (dns *dnsControl) WatchEndpointSliceV1beta1(ctx context.Context) {
+	dns.epLock.Lock()
+	dns.epLister, dns.epController = object.NewIndexerInformer(
+		&cache.ListWatch{
+			ListFunc:  endpointSliceListFuncV1beta1(ctx, dns.client, api.NamespaceAll, dns.selector),
+			WatchFunc: endpointSliceWatchFuncV1beta1(ctx, dns.client, api.NamespaceAll, dns.selector),
+		},
+		&discoveryV1beta1.EndpointSlice{},
+		cache.ResourceEventHandlerFuncs{AddFunc: dns.Add, UpdateFunc: dns.Update, DeleteFunc: dns.Delete},
+		cache.Indexers{epNameNamespaceIndex: epNameNamespaceIndexFunc, epIPIndex: epIPIndexFunc},
+		object.DefaultProcessor(object.EndpointSliceV1beta1ToEndpoints, dns.EndpointSliceLatencyRecorder()),
+	)
+	dns.epLock.Unlock()
+}
+
 func (dns *dnsControl) EndpointsLatencyRecorder() *object.EndpointLatencyRecorder {
 	return &object.EndpointLatencyRecorder{
 		ServiceFunc: func(o meta.Object) []*object.Service {
@@ -262,13 +280,21 @@ func podListFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s label
 		return c.CoreV1().Pods(ns).List(ctx, opts)
 	}
 }
+func endpointSliceListFuncV1beta1(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(meta.ListOptions) (runtime.Object, error) {
+	return func(opts meta.ListOptions) (runtime.Object, error) {
+		if s != nil {
+			opts.LabelSelector = s.String()
+		}
+		return c.DiscoveryV1beta1().EndpointSlices(ns).List(ctx, opts)
+	}
+}
 
 func endpointSliceListFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(meta.ListOptions) (runtime.Object, error) {
 	return func(opts meta.ListOptions) (runtime.Object, error) {
 		if s != nil {
 			opts.LabelSelector = s.String()
 		}
-		return c.DiscoveryV1beta1().EndpointSlices(ns).List(ctx, opts)
+		return c.DiscoveryV1().EndpointSlices(ns).List(ctx, opts)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -312,7 +338,7 @@ func podWatchFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labe
 	}
 }
 
-func endpointSliceWatchFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
+func endpointSliceWatchFuncV1beta1(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
 	return func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
 		if s != nil {
 			options.LabelSelector = s.String()
@@ -321,6 +347,15 @@ func endpointSliceWatchFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns stri
 	}
 }
 
+func endpointSliceWatchFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
+	return func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
+		if s != nil {
+			options.LabelSelector = s.String()
+		}
+		return c.DiscoveryV1().EndpointSlices(ns).Watch(ctx, options)
+	}
+}
+
 func endpointsWatchFunc(ctx context.Context, c kubernetes.Interface, ns string, s labels.Selector) func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
 	return func(options meta.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
 		if s != nil {
diff --git a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index bf1f01664..ea99a81ce 100644
--- a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/miekg/dns"
 	api "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
+	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1"
+	discoveryV1beta1 "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
 	meta "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
@@ -256,10 +257,15 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) InitKubeCache(ctx context.Context) (onStart func() error, o
 		go func() {
 			if initEndpointWatch {
 				// Revert to watching Endpoints for incompatible K8s.
-				// This can be remove when all supported k8s versions support endpointslices.
-				if ok := k.endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient); !ok {
+				// This can be removed when all supported k8s versions support endpointslices.
+				ok, v := k.endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient)
+				if !ok {
 					k.APIConn.(*dnsControl).WatchEndpoints(ctx)
 				}
+				// Revert to EndpointSlice v1beta1 if v1 is not supported
+				if ok && v == discoveryV1beta1.SchemeGroupVersion.String() {
+					k.APIConn.(*dnsControl).WatchEndpointSliceV1beta1(ctx)
+				}
 			}
 			k.APIConn.Run()
 		}()
@@ -290,9 +296,12 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) InitKubeCache(ctx context.Context) (onStart func() error, o
 // endpointSliceSupported will determine which endpoint object type to watch (endpointslices or endpoints)
 // based on the supportability of endpointslices in the API and server version. It will return true when endpointslices
 // should be watched, and false when endpoints should be watched.
-// If the API supports discovery v1 beta1, and the server versions >= 1.19, endpointslices are watched.
-// This function should be removed, along with non-slice endpoint watch code, when support for k8s < 1.19 is dropped.
-func (k *Kubernetes) endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset) bool {
+// If the API supports discovery, and the server versions >= 1.19, true is returned.
+// Also returned is the discovery version supported: "v1" if v1 is supported, and v1beta1 if v1beta1 is supported and
+// v1 is not supported.
+// This function should be removed, when all supported versions of k8s support v1.
+func (k *Kubernetes) endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset) (bool, string) {
+	var sliceVer string
 	useEndpointSlices := false
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(100 * time.Millisecond)
 	defer ticker.Stop()
@@ -303,9 +312,13 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset) bo
 			if err != nil {
 				continue
 			}
-			// Enable use of endpoint slices if the API supports the discovery v1 beta1 api
+			// Enable use of endpoint slices if the API supports the discovery api
 			if _, err := kubeClient.Discovery().ServerResourcesForGroupVersion(discovery.SchemeGroupVersion.String()); err == nil {
 				useEndpointSlices = true
+				sliceVer = discovery.SchemeGroupVersion.String()
+			} else if _, err := kubeClient.Discovery().ServerResourcesForGroupVersion(discoveryV1beta1.SchemeGroupVersion.String()); err == nil {
+				useEndpointSlices = true
+				sliceVer = discoveryV1beta1.SchemeGroupVersion.String()
 			}
 			// Disable use of endpoint slices for k8s versions 1.18 and earlier. The Endpointslices API was enabled
 			// by default in 1.17 but Service -> Pod proxy continued to use Endpoints by default until 1.19.
@@ -317,7 +330,7 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) endpointSliceSupported(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset) bo
 				log.Info("Watching Endpoints instead of EndpointSlices in k8s versions < 1.19")
 				useEndpointSlices = false
 			}
-			return useEndpointSlices
+			return useEndpointSlices, sliceVer
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/plugin/kubernetes/object/endpoint.go b/plugin/kubernetes/object/endpoint.go
index fc25aa4fb..9a5347a9b 100644
--- a/plugin/kubernetes/object/endpoint.go
+++ b/plugin/kubernetes/object/endpoint.go
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 
 	api "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
+	discovery "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1"
+	discoveryV1beta1 "k8s.io/api/discovery/v1beta1"
 	meta "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 )
@@ -151,6 +152,51 @@ func EndpointSliceToEndpoints(obj meta.Object) (meta.Object, error) {
 	return e, nil
 }
 
+// EndpointSliceV1beta1ToEndpoints converts a v1beta1 *discovery.EndpointSlice to a *Endpoints.
+func EndpointSliceV1beta1ToEndpoints(obj meta.Object) (meta.Object, error) {
+	ends, ok := obj.(*discoveryV1beta1.EndpointSlice)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected object %v", obj)
+	}
+	e := &Endpoints{
+		Version:   ends.GetResourceVersion(),
+		Name:      ends.GetName(),
+		Namespace: ends.GetNamespace(),
+		Index:     EndpointsKey(ends.Labels[discovery.LabelServiceName], ends.GetNamespace()),
+		Subsets:   make([]EndpointSubset, 1),
+	}
+
+	if len(ends.Ports) == 0 {
+		// Add sentinel if there are no ports.
+		e.Subsets[0].Ports = []EndpointPort{{Port: -1}}
+	} else {
+		e.Subsets[0].Ports = make([]EndpointPort, len(ends.Ports))
+		for k, p := range ends.Ports {
+			ep := EndpointPort{Port: *p.Port, Name: *p.Name, Protocol: string(*p.Protocol)}
+			e.Subsets[0].Ports[k] = ep
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, end := range ends.Endpoints {
+		for _, a := range end.Addresses {
+			ea := EndpointAddress{IP: a}
+			if end.Hostname != nil {
+				ea.Hostname = *end.Hostname
+			}
+			if end.TargetRef != nil {
+				ea.TargetRefName = end.TargetRef.Name
+			}
+			// EndpointSlice does not contain NodeName, leave blank
+			e.Subsets[0].Addresses = append(e.Subsets[0].Addresses, ea)
+			e.IndexIP = append(e.IndexIP, a)
+		}
+	}
+
+	*ends = discoveryV1beta1.EndpointSlice{}
+
+	return e, nil
+}
+
 // CopyWithoutSubsets copies e, without the subsets.
 func (e *Endpoints) CopyWithoutSubsets() *Endpoints {
 	e1 := &Endpoints{