Alerting: Fix notification channel migration and handle case when Alertmanager default configuration is absent (#35086) (#35246)

* Fix dashboard alert and nootifier migration for MySQL

* Fix POSTing Alertmanager configuration if no current configuration exists

in case the default configuration has not be stored yet
or has failed to get stored

* Change CreatedAt field type

(cherry picked from commit 15c55b0115)

Co-authored-by: Sofia Papagiannaki <papagian@users.noreply.github.com>

pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/ualert/dash_alert.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package ualert
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ SELECT id,
 	name,
 	message,
 	frequency,
-	for,
+	%s,
 	state,
 	settings
 FROM
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ FROM
 // ParsedSettings property of the dash alert.
 func (m *migration) slurpDashAlerts() ([]dashAlert, error) {
 	dashAlerts := []dashAlert{}
-	err := m.sess.SQL(slurpDashSQL).Find(&dashAlerts)
+	err := m.sess.SQL(fmt.Sprintf(slurpDashSQL, m.mg.Dialect.Quote("for"))).Find(&dashAlerts)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err

pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/ualert/ualert.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"time"
 
 	pb "github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/silence/silencepb"
 	"xorm.io/xorm"
@@ -288,7 +287,7 @@ type AlertConfiguration struct {
 
 	AlertmanagerConfiguration string
 	ConfigurationVersion      string
-	CreatedAt                 time.Time `xorm:"created"`
+	CreatedAt                 int64 `xorm:"created"`
 }
 
 type rmMigration struct {