Reduce the cardinality of GitLab metrics
What does this MR do?
We were producing million+ metrics across our fleet of web workers, which caused some trouble to Prometheus to handle all that data.
This MR that reduces the sizes of metrics buckets, and puts a few metrics behind feature flags. It also addresses some usuability issues as well by introducing API that simplifies using Prometheus metrics since old API combined with safely cached feature flags would add some code duplicates making it a bit more fragile.
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Why was this MR needed?
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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
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Internationalization required/considered
What are the relevant issue numbers?
Closes #41771 (closed) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41407