[release-12.0.2] Docs: adding information on adjusting short link expiration time in Grafana cloud (#106650)

Docs: adding information on adjusting short link expiration time in Grafana cloud (#106112)

* Docs: adding information on adjusting short link expiration time in Grafana cloud

* changing admonition and adding info on changing config for cloud

* adjusting wording

* fixing typo

* Update docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md



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(cherry picked from commit f02ad33fd2)

Co-authored-by: Jacob Valdez <jacob.valdez@grafana.com>
Co-authored-by: Isabel Matwawana <76437239+imatwawana@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ By default, the configuration file is located at `/opt/homebrew/etc/grafana/graf
For a Grafana instance installed using Homebrew, edit the `grafana.ini` file directly.
Otherwise, add a configuration file named `custom.ini` to the `conf` directory to override the settings defined in `conf/defaults.ini`.
### Grafana Cloud
There is no local configuration file for Grafana Cloud stacks, but many of these settings are still configurable. To edit configurable settings, open a support ticket.
## Remove comments in the .ini files
Grafana uses semicolons (`;`) to comment out lines in the INI file.
@@ -2038,7 +2042,7 @@ Setting `0` means the short links are cleaned up approximately every 10 minutes.
A negative value such as `-1` disables expiry.
{{< admonition type="caution" >}}
Short links without an expiration increase the size of the database and can't be deleted.
Short links without an expiration increase the size of the database and can't be deleted. Grafana recommends setting a duration based on your specific use case
{{< /admonition >}}
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