Better typing for metric type and points

[MarcCelani-at]

Metrics types can only be one of three values: 'count', 'rate' and 'gauge', but there is no type safety to validate that you are submitting proper values.

Points should be array of tuple (timestamp, value). This could be more strongly typed to catch bugs.

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