Fix metrics attribute types

[BrynCooke]

Metrics attributes were being coerced to strings. This is now fixed.
In addition the logic around the what accepted as metrics attributes has been simplified. It will log and ignore values of the wrong type.

Fixes #3691

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[router-perf]

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• step - Basic stress test that steps up the number of users over time
• events_without_dedup - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication DISABLED
• xlarge-request - Stress test with 10 MB request payload
• xxlarge-request - Stress test with 100 MB request payload
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• large-request - Stress test with a 1 MB request payload
• events - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication ENABLED
• step-jemalloc-tuning - Clone of the basic stress test for jemalloc tuning
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