[receiver/systemd] Add metric for service restarts#45071
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Description
This adds a metric for the number of times a systemd service has exited and been automatically restarted. This is not enabled by default — I think there's enough overlap with other metrics I'd like to expose (e.g. service uptime), that it's not worth it.
Testing
There is a unit for this, and I did some manual testing with a transient unit started with
systemd-run --user -u test -p Restart=always -p StartLimitBurst=50 -- bash -c "sleep 1; exit 1".Documentation
Description (and some extended docs) in the
metadata.yamlas expected, but nothing else.