This code adds Exemplars to VMagent and the promscrape parser adhering
to OpenMetrics Specifications. This will allow forwarding of exemplars
to Prometheus and other third party apps that support OpenMetrics specs.
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Signed-off-by: Ted Possible <ted_possible@cable.comcast.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5a3abfa041)
The easyproto-based marshaler is 2x slower than the previous custom marshaler,
so let's stick with it. This improves the performance for sending data to remote storage at vmagent
and reduces CPU usage to pre-v1.97.0 levels.
