This chang creates a GaugeInfo metrics type for registering informational (textual) metrics, e.g. geth version number. It also improves the testing for backend-exporters, and uses a shared subpackage in 'internal' to provide sample datasets and ordered registry.
Implements #21783
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This change switches to use the smaller influxdata/influxdb1-client package instead of depending on the whole infuxdb package. The new smaller client is very similar to the influxdb-v2 client, which made it possible to refactor the two reporters to reuse code a lot more.