model: add metric type values

To centralise these definitions.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <[email protected]>

Author: bboreham

model/metadata.go

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+// Copyright 2023 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package model
+
+// MetricType represents metric type values.
+type MetricType string
+
+const (
+	MetricTypeCounter        = MetricType("counter")
+	MetricTypeGauge          = MetricType("gauge")
+	MetricTypeHistogram      = MetricType("histogram")
+	MetricTypeGaugeHistogram = MetricType("gaugehistogram")
+	MetricTypeSummary        = MetricType("summary")
+	MetricTypeInfo           = MetricType("info")
+	MetricTypeStateset       = MetricType("stateset")
+	MetricTypeUnknown        = MetricType("unknown")
+)