Metric events

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A metric event in Vector represents a numerical operation performed on a time series. In Vector, unlike in other tools, metrics are first-class citizens. They are not represented as logs. This makes them interoperable with various metrics services without the need for any transformation.

Vector's metric data model favors accuracy and correctness over ideological purity. Vector's metric types are thus an agglomeration of various metric types found in the wild, such as Prometheus and Statsd. This ensures that metrics are correctly interoperable between systems.

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