Alerting: add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss (#48526) (#48570)

* Alerting: add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss

* add test for panic

* add documentation

(cherry picked from commit 0a87ef06af)

Co-authored-by: Jean-Philippe Quéméner <JohnnyQQQQ@users.noreply.github.com>

pkg/setting/setting.go

@@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ type Cfg struct {
 
 	Env string
 
+	ForceMigration bool
+
 	// Analytics
 	CheckForGrafanaUpdates              bool
 	CheckForPluginUpdates               bool
@@ -884,6 +886,7 @@ func (cfg *Cfg) Load(args CommandLineArgs) error {
 
 	Env = valueAsString(iniFile.Section(""), "app_mode", "development")
 	cfg.Env = Env
+	cfg.ForceMigration = iniFile.Section("").Key("force_migration").MustBool(false)
 	InstanceName = valueAsString(iniFile.Section(""), "instance_name", "unknown_instance_name")
 	plugins := valueAsString(iniFile.Section("paths"), "plugins", "")
 	cfg.PluginsPath = makeAbsolute(plugins, HomePath)