Cherry-pick #7929

[purnesh42H]

Original PR: #7929

RELEASE NOTES: None

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 0% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 81.89%. Comparing base (4535c6d) to head (6e09a15).
Report is 1 commits behind head on v1.69.x.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
experimental/stats/metrics.go	0.00%	2 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

@@             Coverage Diff             @@
##           v1.69.x    #7941      +/-   ##
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- Coverage    81.91%   81.89%   -0.03%     
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  Files          377      378       +1     
  Lines        38179    38181       +2     
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- Hits         31274    31267       -7     
- Misses        5590     5596       +6     
- Partials      1315     1318       +3     

Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
experimental/stats/metrics.go	0.00% <0.00%> (ø)

... and 16 files with indirect coverage changes