v0.1.8-RC2

Changelog

• 4943c97 Add option to enforce strict monotonicy in metrics.
• 5c1917f Bump action versions
• 20da321 Bump go versions used in tests and builds
• 70de9d6 Bump newest version to go 1.21 in tests
• 7419ffa Bump to Go 1.21 in tests in relase
• 0191b7b Don't enable experimental docker features in release process
• c071e92 Fix go releaser config
• 6e9f1a2 Fix goreleaser deprecation
• 9da7b1b Handle json payload in metric_per_topic mode
• 72289ee Merge branch 'master' into monotonic_gauge
• 66d4028 Merge pull request #141 from chrschn/monotonic_gauge
• 6d695bd Rename received_messages metric to be more conventional
• 84ed960 Restrict to Go 1.14 functionality
• d562b92 Update Readme.md
• 1f018bf Update dependency golang to v1.21
• a963576 Update dependency prom/prometheus to v2.48.1