fix a few metrics test issues #73

Job	Run time
get_version	4s
build-and-run-tests-windows	36m 31s
build-and-run-tests-macos (macos-14)	25m 30s
build-and-run-tests-ubuntu	25m 14s
build-and-run-tests-macos (macos-13)	31m 45s
	1h 59m 4s

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