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Support grafana links

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Mentions: #217736 (closed)

User-defined links (docs) in the dashboard yml file support passing time range to the URLs (!33663 (merged)).

However, if a Grafana link is passed, the time range params are not compatible. This MR modifies the params so that it is compatible with Grafana. Grafana time modifies documentation is here

All absolute time ranges are converted to epoch and relative time ranges to now - <seconds>s.

- Before After
Absolute time range
 { start: 'ISOString', end: 'ISOString' } 
 { from: 'epoch', to: 'epoch' } 
Relative time range
 { duration_seconds: 86400 } 
 { from: 'now-86400s', end: 'now' } 

Demo

https://gitlab-review-support-gr-1gb5s9.gitlab-review.app/root/monitor-sandbox-2/-/environments/2/metrics?dashboard=.gitlab%2Fdashboards%2Fmany_links.yml

Sample dashboard for testing

many_links.yml

Screenshots

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Relative time - Metrics dashboards relative_time_gitlab_dashboard
Relative time - Grafana dashboards (with UTC and browser timezone) relative_time_grafana
Absolute time - Grafana and Metrics dashboards absolute_time_grafana_and_gitlab

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