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Metrics dashboard: Fix error handling by using a backoff timeout and a flash notice

What does this MR do?

Background

When a metric cannot be loaded, our frontend would stop after 3 tries if a metric loading failed. This change removes the retry count and replaces it with a long timeout.

This is done by grouping all dashboard metrics requests in a Promise.all and by prompting the user when any of them fails.

The other metrics can still load, so specs are added to emulate these condition when a single metric fails have been updated.

Implementation

  • Removed the 3 retry count for requests to the PromQL proxy API, under the assumption that the request and corresponding cache might not have enough time to respond.
    • Keep using backOff, to avoid over-requesting to the server.
  • Use a timeout intead, with a long value of TWO_MINUTES.
  • Remove the catch, so the dashboard can attempt to continue loading, and hence display errors already setup.

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

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Closes #32778 (closed)

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