Prometheus Native Histogram support phase3

[krajorama]

Continued from #4173

Collection of Mimir and ecosystem features, tasks for keeping track and prioritization. This is not an official roadmap.

Mimir issues

Tasks

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1. Native histogram: validate schema number in distributor before reducing resolution #7230
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2. Enable query sharding if possible for histogram_avg function #7307
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3. Allow using native histogram version of latency metrics in Mimir #7154
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4. Enhance mimirtool to help convert dashboards and rules for a metric to native histogram queries
5. Native histograms: optimize chunk iterator usage #7235
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6. Add native histograms support to all latency histograms emitted by Mimir #5020
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7. Reduce memory use of tracking active series and native histograms #5812
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8. Add anonymous usage statistics about native histograms
9. Add per tenant limit flag to stop processing native histogram chunks #3971
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10. Vendor custom bucket native histograms (nhcb) from Prometheus #7817
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11. Add an API to fetch information about native histogram active buckets #7981
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12. Document migration path alternatives from classic to native histograms

Ecosystem issues

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1. [receiver/prometheusreceiver] implement append native histogram open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#28663
   enhancement ready to merge receiver/prometheus +3
   
2. Resolve conflict with upstream PopulateBlock interface mimir-prometheus#484
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3. Store and query classic histograms as native histograms with custom buckets prometheus/proposals#31
   proposal +1
4. Metrics explorer should have a filter for native histograms grafana#81971
   area/frontend area/ux datasource/Prometheus type/feature-request +4
   
5. allow to disable queries based on (multi)variables grafana#79848
   area/dashboard/templating type/feature-request +2
6. mixtool lint doesn't support Prometheus functions for native histograms monitoring-mixins/mixtool#163
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