Catch panic from Prometheus client on invalid label strings #4051
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Partially addresses #2944.
Supersedes and closes #4050.
This only solves the problem in httpmetrics package, we still have other scenarios where malformed strings can leak into Prometheus labels and cause panic, specifically the service-name-based metrics produced by the collector. So I am keeping the original issue open. Hopefully, we can resolve it when we migrate the metrics to OTEL, and allow factories to return errors to be handled gracefully.