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Add bigtable-attempt to request metadata when the RPC is a retry attempt

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api: bigtable type: feature request

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Improve observability of network issues from the bigtable server side.

Describe the solution you'd like
When the initial RPC fails, the retry attempts that occur afterwards should populate bigtable-attempt request metadata. The first retry attempt should set the value to 1. If that fails, the 2nd attempt should set it to 2, etc. Please note that the initial RPC should not set the header.
This will increase feature parity with java-bigtable.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Adding clientside metrics - would give us similar info, but will take a lot longer to implement and will have gaps due to possible connectivity issues with stackdriver

Logging - logging failed attempts can alert customers to retries occuring. However during support cases the customer would have to be aware of this

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