[Bug]: vllm:num_requests_waiting is not being published at /metrics endpoint

[IshmeetMehta]

🐛 Describe the bug

Data for vllm:num_requests_waiting is missing.

vllm:num_requests_waiting is not being published at /metrics endpoint

docker image for vllm : vllm-openai:v0.5.3.post1

# HELP vllm:num_requests_waiting Number of requests waiting to be processed.
# TYPE vllm:num_requests_waiting gauge
vllm:num_requests_waiting{model_name="/data/models/model-gemma2-a100/experiment-it1"} 0.0

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