[v10.2.x] Alerting: Attempt to retry retryable errors #79175
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Backport c631261 from #79161
Retrying has been broken for a good while now (at least since version 9.4) - this change attempts to re-introduce them in their simplest and safest form possible.
I first introduced #79095 to make sure we don't disrupt or put additional load on our customer's data sources with this change in a patch release. Paired with this change, retries can now work as expected.
There's two small differences between how retries work now and how they used to work in legacy alerting.
Retries only occur for valid alert definitions - if we suspect that that error comes from a malformed alert definition, we skip retrying. We have added a constant backoff of 1s in between retries.
Once this is merged, I'll make sure to update:
With what we should do next.