[rate] add canonical_rate + feature flag for the feature #154
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This PR adds a feature flag to enable canonical rate behavior for counters/rates such that a negative rate would not be reported. A legit negative rate would typically represent a metric that should be reported as a
gauge
. Because the former inconsistent behavior has been present in jmxfetch for a while, and to avoid breaking alerts and dashboards, we will put this behind a feature flag for now.Based off #146