proposal: net/http: expose statistics about the client connection pool

[glenjamin]

At present, Go's http.Transport struct implements a connection pool with a few tunable parameters to manage the lifecycle of connections within this pool.
Unlike the similar connection pooling behaviour of sql.DB, there is no (first-class) way to access statistics about how many connections are active, idle or waiting.
This makes it quite difficult to figure out what the optimal numbers for connection limits, idle limits and idle timeouts should be.

I found this issue which suggested something in that general direction, but it begins with a solution rather than a problem statement.

There is also this package which implements such tracking via a a custom DialContext to infer the state of the pool - although it appears to be now be unmaintained.

I think an API similar to sql.DB's Stats() method would suit my needs, but it may be that others have drawn lessons from that implementation which they would prefer not to repeat?

[seankhliao]

This is currently being discussed in #61638
For now, please make your points there.