Adds first-class integration with VictoriaMetrics to simplify ops
dashboards and move toward project-supported telemetry without
sidecar collectors.
Impact: New optional feature (off by default). No behavior change
unless configured via push.* parameters.
Before: impstats could only log locally or emit text formats.
After: impstats can push counters to Prometheus-compatible endpoints.
Technical: implement a native Prometheus Remote Write path in
impstats, encoding counters to protobuf and compressing with snappy
over HTTP via libcurl. Replace interim text parsing with a new
statsobj v14 API (GetAllCounters) that iterates raw uint64 counters,
keeps atomic reads for IntCtr and best-effort reads for Int. Add
metric builder with Prometheus-compliant sanitization and the naming
pattern <origin>_<name>_<counter>_total. Provide TLS knobs (CA, mTLS,
insecureSkipVerify), static/dynamic labels, timeout, and optional
batching by bytes/series. Build is gated behind
--enable-impstats-push with protobuf-c/snappy/curl checks. Ship docs,
basic/VM integration tests, and a GitHub Actions workflow using a
VictoriaMetrics service; TSAN jobs disable impstats-push.
Configuration: push.url, push.labels, push.timeout.ms,
push.label.{instance,job,origin,name}, push.tls.{cafile,certfile,
keyfile,insecureSkipVerify}, push.batch.{maxBytes,maxSeries}.
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