Alerting: add template funcs (#38404)

* Alerting: (wip) add template funcs

* Alerting: (wip) numeric template functions

* Alerting: (wip) template functions

* Test for the "args" function

* Alerting: (wip) Documentation for template functions

* Alerting: template functions - refactor

* code review changes

* disable linter error

* Use Prometheus implementation of TemplateExpander

* Update docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/alerting-rules/create-grafana-managed-rule.md

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@@ -112,6 +112,23 @@ The following template variables are available when expanding annotations and la
| $values | The values of all reduce and math expressions that were evaluated for this alert rule. For example, `{{ $values.A }}`, `{{ $values.A.Labels }}` and `{{ $values.A.Value }}` where `A` is the `refID` of the expression. This is unavailable when the rule uses a classic condition. |
| $value | The value string of the alert instance. For example, `[ var='A' labels={instance=foo} value=10 ]`. |
#### Template functions
The following template functions are available when expanding annotations and labels.
| Name | Argument | Return | Description |
| ------------------ | ---------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| humanize | number or string | string | Converts a number to a more readable format, using metric prefixes. |
| humanize1024 | number or string | string | Like humanize, but uses 1024 as the base rather than 1000. |
| humanizeDuration | number or string | string | Converts a duration in seconds to a more readable format. |
| humanizePercentage | number or string | string | Converts a ratio value to a fraction of 100. |
| humanizeTimestamp | number or string | string | Converts a Unix timestamp in seconds to a more readable format. |
| title | string | string | strings.Title, capitalises first character of each word. |
| toUpper | string | string | strings.ToUpper, converts all characters to upper case. |
| toLower | string | string | strings.ToLower, converts all characters to lower case. |
| match | pattern, text | boolean | Regexp.ReplaceAllString Regexp substitution, unanchored. |
| args | []interface{} | map[string]interface{} | Converts a list of objects to a map with keys, for example, arg0, arg1. Use this function to pass multiple arguments to templates. |
## Preview alerts
To evaluate the rule and see what alerts it would produce, click **Preview alerts**. It will display a list of alerts with state and value for each one.