[v11.4.x] Alerting docs: clarify data source-managed rules for Prometheus (#98954)

Alerting docs: clarify data source-managed rules for Prometheus (#98378)

* Clarify DS managed rules support only the creation of Mimir and Loki rules

* additional copy changes

* Extend `Manage alerts via Alerting UI` description

* fix capital letter

* further details for `Manage alerts via Alerting UI`

(cherry picked from commit 7771768363)

Co-authored-by: Pepe Cano <825430+ppcano@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ refs:
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/configure-data-links/#value-variables
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/configure-data-links/#value-variables
alerting-alert-rules:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rules/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rules/
---
# Configure Prometheus
@@ -115,7 +120,7 @@ Following are additional configuration options.
### Alerting
- **Manage alerts via Alerting UI** - Toggle to enable `Alertmanager` integration for this data source.
- **Manage alerts via Alerting UI** - Toggle to enable [data source-managed rules in Grafana Alerting](ref:alerting-alert-rules) for this data source. For `Mimir`, it enables managing data source-managed rules and alerts. For `Prometheus`, it only supports viewing existing rules and alerts, which are displayed as data source-managed.
### Interval behavior