Monotonically increasing counter (e.g. total requests, total retries).
Optionaltags: MetricTagsLatency distribution (e.g. request duration in ms).
Optionaltags: MetricTagsPoint-in-time gauge (e.g. current in-flight requests, queue depth).
Optionaltags: MetricTags
Pluggable sink for vereda metrics. Implement this interface to wire vereda into OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, or any other metrics backend. The client calls these methods at well-defined lifecycle points; all calls are synchronous and non-blocking.