Prometheus scrape is not generating any fluentbit metric

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Bug Report

Describe the bug Prometheus_scrape report (almost) every fluentbit metric with 0.

To Reproduce If you configure an exporter, configure Fluent Bit to use the prometheus_scrape input to read it, and enable the http server configuration, you cannot see any metrics querying the prometheus endpoint.

curl -s localhost:2020/api/v2/metrics/prometheus | grep input
# HELP fluentbit_input_bytes_total Number of input bytes.
# TYPE fluentbit_input_bytes_total counter
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="http.0"} 619
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="syslog.1"} 4603299
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="syslog.2"} 3955500
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="http.3"} 106697067
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="prometheus_scrape.4"} 0  <---- Everything is 0, while it shouldn't be 0
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="prometheus_scrape.5"} 0
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="prometheus_scrape.6"} 0
fluentbit_input_bytes_total{name="prometheus_scrape.7"} 0

Expected behavior It would be nice to report these metrics. Apart having these metrics, it would be nice to have a separate metric to track errors in the input (to track misbehaving exporters).

Your Environment

• Version used: 3.2.6
• Operating System and version: Almalinux 9
• Filters and plugins: prometheus_scrape