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Improve discoverability of errors that break the alerts view #759

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In a recent discussion, @adriaanjacobs asked about a situation where the alerts view was silently unusable for a particular path query against a particular database. Ultimately, there was an error in the extension output pane, which indicated that we had encountered an exception while processing interpreted results, and were falling back on raw display.

While that's certainly better than not displaying results at all, it would be nice to find a way of making it clear why the alerts view is non-functional (perhaps by replacing it with an error pane that shows details about the exception we caught?).

To Reproduce
I have a database and query that reproduce the problem -- ping me on Slack if it would be useful to have them.

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