we need to track number of goroutines

[Dieterbe]

we have evidence of memleaks and it isn't always clear in the heap profile.
another source of memleaks that we haven't explored much, is leaking goroutines.
https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#NumGoroutine
exposing this as a metric can become useful for this, and also other problems

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