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Prometheus exporter handles instrumentation scope and prevents collisions

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area:exporter:prometheus area:metrics do-not-stale spec-compliance
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Description

Now that https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2703 is released, we can update the prometheus exporter to make use of OpenTelemetry scope, particularly for reducing collisions between metrics with the same name.

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There are a few components:

Note that the exporter SHOULD do the above by default, but may allow disabling the behavior.

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