This is a non functional change which consolidates the various packages
under metrics into the top level package now that the dead code is
removed.
It is a precursor to the removal of Victoria metrics after which all
erigon metrics code will be contained in this single package.
This is an update of:
https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/pull/7846
which uses a local fork of victoria metrics to include the changes that
https://github.com/anshalshukla added to the original for we where
using.
It also includes code to address the duplicate metrics issue identified
here:
https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/issues/8053
It has one more associated fix which is to correctly add a metadata
label to counters, these where previously labelled as gauges.
e.g.
```
# TYPE p2p_peers counter
p2p_peers 0
```
rather than
```
# TYPE p2p_peers gauge
p2p_peers 0
```
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Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <53994948+anshalshukla@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <shukla.anshal85@gmail.com>
we need to extract this interface from the struct.
i need to also break down the interface more, to better show what parts
the caching is used, move some functions from the cache state to the
underlying.
don't merge
