[chore]: Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.17.0 to 1.18.0 (#2507)

Bumps [github.com/prometheus/client_golang](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang) from 1.17.0 to 1.18.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/prometheus/client_golang
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
...

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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/vendor/github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/pbutil/encode.go b/vendor/github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/pbutil/encode.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fb59ad22..000000000
--- a/vendor/github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/pbutil/encode.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2013 Matt T. Proud
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package pbutil
-
-import (
-	"encoding/binary"
-	"io"
-
-	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
-)
-
-// WriteDelimited encodes and dumps a message to the provided writer prefixed
-// with a 32-bit varint indicating the length of the encoded message, producing
-// a length-delimited record stream, which can be used to chain together
-// encoded messages of the same type together in a file.  It returns the total
-// number of bytes written and any applicable error.  This is roughly
-// equivalent to the companion Java API's MessageLite#writeDelimitedTo.
-func WriteDelimited(w io.Writer, m proto.Message) (n int, err error) {
-	buffer, err := proto.Marshal(m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-
-	var buf [binary.MaxVarintLen32]byte
-	encodedLength := binary.PutUvarint(buf[:], uint64(len(buffer)))
-
-	sync, err := w.Write(buf[:encodedLength])
-	if err != nil {
-		return sync, err
-	}
-
-	n, err = w.Write(buffer)
-	return n + sync, err
-}