[Metrics] Add --show-hidden-metrics-for-version
CLI arg
#13295
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Part of #10582 and discussed in #12745
Add some infrastructure to help us deprecate and remove metrics in a less user-hostile way.
Our deprecation process will now be:
release notes, user-facing docs, and the help text in
/metrics
metrics using
--show-hidden-metrics-for-version=0.N.0
as anescape hatch
--show-hidden-metrics
takes a version string argument so that users cannot fall into the habit of always enabling all deprecated metrics, which would defeat the purpose.This approach is copied directly from kubernetes/kubernetes#85270