Alerting: Do not retry rule evaluations with "input data must be a wide series but got type long" style errors (#87343)

add typed error for series must be wide, do not retry

pkg/expr/converter.go

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ func (c *ResultConverter) Convert(ctx context.Context,
 		}
 
 		if schema.Type != data.TimeSeriesTypeWide && !allowLongFrames {
-			return "", mathexp.Results{}, fmt.Errorf("input data must be a wide series but got type %s (input refid)", schema.Type)
+			return "", mathexp.Results{}, fmt.Errorf("%w but got type %s (input refid)", ErrSeriesMustBeWide, schema.Type)
 		}
 		filtered = append(filtered, frame)
 		totalLen += len(schema.ValueIndices)
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ func extractNumberSet(frame *data.Frame) ([]mathexp.Number, error) {
 func WideToMany(frame *data.Frame, fixSeries func(series mathexp.Series, valueField *data.Field)) ([]mathexp.Series, error) {
 	tsSchema := frame.TimeSeriesSchema()
 	if tsSchema.Type != data.TimeSeriesTypeWide {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("input data must be a wide series but got type %s", tsSchema.Type)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w but got type %s", ErrSeriesMustBeWide, tsSchema.Type)
 	}
 
 	if len(tsSchema.ValueIndices) == 1 {

pkg/expr/errors.go

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/util/errutil"
 )
 
+var ErrSeriesMustBeWide = errors.New("input data must be a wide series")
+
 var ConversionError = errutil.BadRequest("sse.readDataError").MustTemplate(
 	"[{{ .Public.refId }}] got error: {{ .Error }}",
 	errutil.WithPublic(