diff --git a/rust+wasm/deny.toml b/rust+wasm/deny.toml
index 8200940..c9aa6ec 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/deny.toml
+++ b/rust+wasm/deny.toml
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ ignore = [
     "RUSTSEC-2021-0145", # atty on windows only
     "RUSTSEC-2023-0071", # Impacts rsa crate, which is only used in dev, see
                          # https://github.com/RustCrypto/RSA/pull/394 for remediation
-    "RUSTSEC-2024-0336", # Ignore a DOS issue w/ rustls-0.20.9. This will go
-                         # away when we update opentelemetry-otlp soon.
-    { id = "RUSTSEC-2020-0168", reason = "Not planning to force upgrade to mach2 yet" },
     { id = "RUSTSEC-2024-0320", reason = "Not planning to force upgrade to rust-yaml2 yet" },
 ]
 # Threshold for security vulnerabilities, any vulnerability with a CVSS score
@@ -118,6 +115,7 @@ exceptions = [
     # this is not a problem for us. See https://github.com/dtolnay/unicode-ident/pull/9/files
     { allow = ["Unicode-DFS-2016"], name = "unicode-ident", version = "*"},
     { allow = ["OpenSSL"], name = "ring", version = "*" },
+    { allow = ["OpenSSL"], name = "aws-lc-sys", version = "*" },
     { allow = ["MPL-2.0"], name = "webpki-roots", version = "*"},
 ]
 
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/Cargo.axum.toml b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/Cargo.axum.toml
index af4300b..cef5144 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/Cargo.axum.toml
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/Cargo.axum.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ axum-extra = { version = "0.9", features = ["typed-header"] }
 axum-tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.19" }
 base64 = "0.21"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
-config = "0.13"
+config = "0.14"
 console-subscriber = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = [ "parking_lot" ], optional = true }
 const_format = "0.2"
 futures = "0.3"
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ headers = "0.4"
 http = "1.1"
 http-serde = "2.1"
 hyper = "1.0.1"
-metrics = "0.20"
-metrics-exporter-prometheus = "0.11"
-metrics-util = { version = "0.14", default-features = true }
+metrics = "0.23"
+metrics-exporter-prometheus = "0.15"
+metrics-util = { version = "0.17", default-features = true }
 mime = "0.3"
 num_cpus = "1.0"
 once_cell = "1.14"
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/metrics/process.rs b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
index 9ae4aa4..67fc3a3 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
@@ -80,31 +80,20 @@ async fn get_proc_stats(mut sys: System) -> Result<()> {
         let disk = proc.disk_usage();
 
         // cpu-usage divided by # of cores.
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_cpu_usage_percentage",
-            f64::from(proc.cpu_usage() / (cpus as f32))
-        );
+        metrics::gauge!("process_cpu_usage_percentage")
+            .set(f64::from(proc.cpu_usage() / (cpus as f32)));
 
         // The docs for sysinfo indicate that `virtual_memory`
         // returns in KB, but that is incorrect.
         // See this issue: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo/issues/428#issuecomment-774098021
         // And this PR: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo/pull/430/files
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_virtual_memory_bytes",
-            (proc.virtual_memory()) as f64
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_memory_bytes", (proc.memory() * 1_000) as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!("process_uptime_seconds", proc.run_time() as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_disk_total_written_bytes",
-            disk.total_written_bytes as f64,
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_written_bytes", disk.written_bytes as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_disk_total_read_bytes",
-            disk.total_read_bytes as f64,
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_read_bytes", disk.read_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_virtual_memory_bytes").set(proc.virtual_memory() as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_memory_bytes").set((proc.memory()) as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_uptime_seconds").set(proc.run_time() as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_total_written_bytes").set(disk.total_written_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_written_bytes").set(disk.written_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_total_read_bytes").set(disk.total_read_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_read_bytes").set(disk.read_bytes as f64);
     } else {
         info!(
             subject = "metrics.process_collection",
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
index 215c3e6..5112b8f 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ impl ReqwestMiddleware for Metrics {
         let now = Instant::now();
 
         let url = request.url().clone();
-        let request_path: String = url.path().to_string();
+        let request_path = url.path().to_string();
         let method = request.method().clone();
 
         let result = next.run(request, extensions).await;
@@ -38,17 +38,21 @@ impl ReqwestMiddleware for Metrics {
         let labels = vec![
             ("client", self.name.to_string()),
             ("method", method.to_string()),
-            ("request_path", request_path),
+            ("request_path", request_path.clone()),
         ];
 
         let extended_labels = extend_labels_for_response(labels, &result);
 
-        metrics::increment_counter!("client_http_requests_total", &extended_labels);
-        metrics::histogram!(
-            "client_http_request_duration_seconds",
-            latency,
-            &extended_labels
-        );
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total").increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", &extended_labels).increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", "client" => self.name.to_string())
+            .increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", "client" => self.name.to_string(), "request_path" => request_path.clone()).increment(1u64);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds").record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", &extended_labels)
+            .record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", "client" => self.name.to_string()).record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", "client" => self.name.to_string(), "request_path" => request_path.clone()).record(latency);
 
         result
     }
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
index 2b3719a..767c10a 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
@@ -9,21 +9,18 @@ use std::time::Instant;
 pub async fn track(req: Request<Body>, next: Next) -> impl IntoResponse {
     let start = Instant::now();
 
-    let method = req.method().clone();
-    let path = req.path();
+    let path = req.path().to_string();
 
     let res = next.run(req).await;
     let latency = start.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
-    let status = res.status().as_u16().to_string();
-
-    let labels = [
-        ("method", method.to_string()),
-        ("request_path", path),
-        ("status", status),
-    ];
-
-    metrics::increment_counter!("http_requests_total", &labels);
-    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", latency, &labels);
+    let status = res.status().as_u16();
 
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total").increment(1);
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total", "request_path" => path.clone() ).increment(1);
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total", "request_path" => path.clone(), "status" => status.to_string() ).increment(1);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds").record(latency);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", "request_path" => path.clone())
+        .record(latency);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", "request_path" => path.clone(), "status" => status.to_string()).record(latency);
     res
 }
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
index d118161..543204d 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
@@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ impl<T: RetryPolicy + Send + Sync> RetryTransientMiddleware<T> {
         extensions: &mut Extensions,
         next: Next<'a>,
     ) -> Result<Response> {
-        let url = request.url().clone();
-        let request_path: String = url.path().to_string();
+        let request_path = request.url().path().to_string();
         let method = request.method().clone();
 
         let result = next.run(request, extensions).await;
@@ -172,12 +171,15 @@ impl<T: RetryPolicy + Send + Sync> RetryTransientMiddleware<T> {
         let labels = vec![
             ("client", self.client_name.to_string()),
             ("method", method.to_string()),
-            ("request_path", request_path),
+            ("request_path", request_path.clone()),
         ];
 
         let extended_labels = client::metrics::extend_labels_for_response(labels, &result);
 
-        metrics::increment_counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", &extended_labels);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total").increment(1);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", "request_path" => request_path)
+            .increment(1);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", &extended_labels).increment(1);
         result
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
index cae1451..0423873 100644
--- a/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
+++ b/rust+wasm/{{project-name}}/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
@@ -68,12 +68,9 @@ where
             // Need to sort labels to remain the same across all metrics.
             labels.sort_unstable();
 
-            metrics::increment_counter!(format!("{name}_total"), &labels);
-            metrics::histogram!(
-                format!("{name}_duration_seconds"),
-                elapsed_secs_f64,
-                &labels
-            );
+            metrics::counter!(format!("{name}_total"), &labels).increment(1);
+            metrics::histogram!(format!("{name}_duration_seconds"), &labels)
+                .record(elapsed_secs_f64);
 
             // Remove storage as this is the last layer.
             extensions
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.axum.toml b/rust/Cargo.axum.toml
index 34d1941..e05b707 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.axum.toml
+++ b/rust/Cargo.axum.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ axum-extra = { version = "0.9", features = ["typed-header"] }
 axum-tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.19" }
 base64 = "0.21"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
-config = "0.13"
+config = "0.14"
 console-subscriber = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = [ "parking_lot" ], optional = true }
 const_format = "0.2"
 futures = "0.3"
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ headers = "0.4"
 http = "1.1"
 http-serde = "2.1"
 hyper = "1.0.1"
-metrics = "0.20"
-metrics-exporter-prometheus = "0.11"
-metrics-util = { version = "0.14", default-features = true }
+metrics = "0.23"
+metrics-exporter-prometheus = "0.15"
+metrics-util = { version = "0.17", default-features = true }
 mime = "0.3"
 num_cpus = "1.0"
 once_cell = "1.14"
diff --git a/rust/deny.toml b/rust/deny.toml
index 8200940..c9aa6ec 100644
--- a/rust/deny.toml
+++ b/rust/deny.toml
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ ignore = [
     "RUSTSEC-2021-0145", # atty on windows only
     "RUSTSEC-2023-0071", # Impacts rsa crate, which is only used in dev, see
                          # https://github.com/RustCrypto/RSA/pull/394 for remediation
-    "RUSTSEC-2024-0336", # Ignore a DOS issue w/ rustls-0.20.9. This will go
-                         # away when we update opentelemetry-otlp soon.
-    { id = "RUSTSEC-2020-0168", reason = "Not planning to force upgrade to mach2 yet" },
     { id = "RUSTSEC-2024-0320", reason = "Not planning to force upgrade to rust-yaml2 yet" },
 ]
 # Threshold for security vulnerabilities, any vulnerability with a CVSS score
@@ -118,6 +115,7 @@ exceptions = [
     # this is not a problem for us. See https://github.com/dtolnay/unicode-ident/pull/9/files
     { allow = ["Unicode-DFS-2016"], name = "unicode-ident", version = "*"},
     { allow = ["OpenSSL"], name = "ring", version = "*" },
+    { allow = ["OpenSSL"], name = "aws-lc-sys", version = "*" },
     { allow = ["MPL-2.0"], name = "webpki-roots", version = "*"},
 ]
 
diff --git a/rust/src.axum/metrics/process.rs b/rust/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
index 9ae4aa4..67fc3a3 100644
--- a/rust/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
+++ b/rust/src.axum/metrics/process.rs
@@ -80,31 +80,20 @@ async fn get_proc_stats(mut sys: System) -> Result<()> {
         let disk = proc.disk_usage();
 
         // cpu-usage divided by # of cores.
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_cpu_usage_percentage",
-            f64::from(proc.cpu_usage() / (cpus as f32))
-        );
+        metrics::gauge!("process_cpu_usage_percentage")
+            .set(f64::from(proc.cpu_usage() / (cpus as f32)));
 
         // The docs for sysinfo indicate that `virtual_memory`
         // returns in KB, but that is incorrect.
         // See this issue: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo/issues/428#issuecomment-774098021
         // And this PR: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo/pull/430/files
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_virtual_memory_bytes",
-            (proc.virtual_memory()) as f64
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_memory_bytes", (proc.memory() * 1_000) as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!("process_uptime_seconds", proc.run_time() as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_disk_total_written_bytes",
-            disk.total_written_bytes as f64,
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_written_bytes", disk.written_bytes as f64);
-        metrics::gauge!(
-            "process_disk_total_read_bytes",
-            disk.total_read_bytes as f64,
-        );
-        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_read_bytes", disk.read_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_virtual_memory_bytes").set(proc.virtual_memory() as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_memory_bytes").set((proc.memory()) as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_uptime_seconds").set(proc.run_time() as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_total_written_bytes").set(disk.total_written_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_written_bytes").set(disk.written_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_total_read_bytes").set(disk.total_read_bytes as f64);
+        metrics::gauge!("process_disk_read_bytes").set(disk.read_bytes as f64);
     } else {
         info!(
             subject = "metrics.process_collection",
diff --git a/rust/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs b/rust/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
index 215c3e6..5112b8f 100644
--- a/rust/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
+++ b/rust/src.axum/middleware/client/metrics.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ impl ReqwestMiddleware for Metrics {
         let now = Instant::now();
 
         let url = request.url().clone();
-        let request_path: String = url.path().to_string();
+        let request_path = url.path().to_string();
         let method = request.method().clone();
 
         let result = next.run(request, extensions).await;
@@ -38,17 +38,21 @@ impl ReqwestMiddleware for Metrics {
         let labels = vec![
             ("client", self.name.to_string()),
             ("method", method.to_string()),
-            ("request_path", request_path),
+            ("request_path", request_path.clone()),
         ];
 
         let extended_labels = extend_labels_for_response(labels, &result);
 
-        metrics::increment_counter!("client_http_requests_total", &extended_labels);
-        metrics::histogram!(
-            "client_http_request_duration_seconds",
-            latency,
-            &extended_labels
-        );
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total").increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", &extended_labels).increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", "client" => self.name.to_string())
+            .increment(1u64);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_total", "client" => self.name.to_string(), "request_path" => request_path.clone()).increment(1u64);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds").record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", &extended_labels)
+            .record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", "client" => self.name.to_string()).record(latency);
+        metrics::histogram!("client_http_request_duration_seconds", "client" => self.name.to_string(), "request_path" => request_path.clone()).record(latency);
 
         result
     }
diff --git a/rust/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs b/rust/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
index 2b3719a..767c10a 100644
--- a/rust/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
+++ b/rust/src.axum/middleware/metrics.rs
@@ -9,21 +9,18 @@ use std::time::Instant;
 pub async fn track(req: Request<Body>, next: Next) -> impl IntoResponse {
     let start = Instant::now();
 
-    let method = req.method().clone();
-    let path = req.path();
+    let path = req.path().to_string();
 
     let res = next.run(req).await;
     let latency = start.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
-    let status = res.status().as_u16().to_string();
-
-    let labels = [
-        ("method", method.to_string()),
-        ("request_path", path),
-        ("status", status),
-    ];
-
-    metrics::increment_counter!("http_requests_total", &labels);
-    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", latency, &labels);
+    let status = res.status().as_u16();
 
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total").increment(1);
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total", "request_path" => path.clone() ).increment(1);
+    metrics::counter!("http_requests_total", "request_path" => path.clone(), "status" => status.to_string() ).increment(1);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds").record(latency);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", "request_path" => path.clone())
+        .record(latency);
+    metrics::histogram!("http_request_duration_seconds", "request_path" => path.clone(), "status" => status.to_string()).record(latency);
     res
 }
diff --git a/rust/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs b/rust/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
index d118161..543204d 100644
--- a/rust/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
+++ b/rust/src.axum/middleware/reqwest_retry.rs
@@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ impl<T: RetryPolicy + Send + Sync> RetryTransientMiddleware<T> {
         extensions: &mut Extensions,
         next: Next<'a>,
     ) -> Result<Response> {
-        let url = request.url().clone();
-        let request_path: String = url.path().to_string();
+        let request_path = request.url().path().to_string();
         let method = request.method().clone();
 
         let result = next.run(request, extensions).await;
@@ -172,12 +171,15 @@ impl<T: RetryPolicy + Send + Sync> RetryTransientMiddleware<T> {
         let labels = vec![
             ("client", self.client_name.to_string()),
             ("method", method.to_string()),
-            ("request_path", request_path),
+            ("request_path", request_path.clone()),
         ];
 
         let extended_labels = client::metrics::extend_labels_for_response(labels, &result);
 
-        metrics::increment_counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", &extended_labels);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total").increment(1);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", "request_path" => request_path)
+            .increment(1);
+        metrics::counter!("client_http_requests_retry_total", &extended_labels).increment(1);
         result
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs b/rust/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
index cae1451..0423873 100644
--- a/rust/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
+++ b/rust/src.axum/tracing_layers/metrics_layer.rs
@@ -68,12 +68,9 @@ where
             // Need to sort labels to remain the same across all metrics.
             labels.sort_unstable();
 
-            metrics::increment_counter!(format!("{name}_total"), &labels);
-            metrics::histogram!(
-                format!("{name}_duration_seconds"),
-                elapsed_secs_f64,
-                &labels
-            );
+            metrics::counter!(format!("{name}_total"), &labels).increment(1);
+            metrics::histogram!(format!("{name}_duration_seconds"), &labels)
+                .record(elapsed_secs_f64);
 
             // Remove storage as this is the last layer.
             extensions