[Metricbeat] remove distribution type metrics from googlecloud #17946
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What does this PR do?
This PR is to remove collecting metrics from googlecloud that are distribution type. Distribution contains summary statistics for a population of values. It optionally contains a histogram representing the distribution of those values across a set of buckets.
Why is it important?
Right now we don't have support for histogram in googlecloud metricbeat module. When collecting distribution type metrics, they show up like this in ElasticSearch:
We will need to add support for ES histogram to support this type of metrics from google cloud. Right now, we should remove them till we have the histogram support added in a seperate PR.
Checklist
CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
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