* add method CanReadAllRules to rule authorization service
* add alias type Namespace for Folder in ngalert's models package. It implements the Namespacer interface that is used by authz logic
* update state history's backends to authorize access to rules.
* update Loki to add folders UIDs to query.
* Update BuildLogQuery to drop filter by folders if it's too long and fall back to in-memory filtering.
* Rename RecordStatesAsync to Record
* Rename QueryStates to Query
* Implement fanout writes
* Implement primary queries
* Simplify error joining
* Add test for query path
* Add tests for writes and error propagation
* Allow fanout backend to be configured
* Touch up log messages and config validation
* Consistent documentation for all backend structs
* Parse and normalize backend names more consistently against an enum
* Touch-ups to documentation
* Improve clarity around multi-record blocking
* Keep primary and secondaries more distinct
* Rename fanout backend to multiple backend
* Simplify config keys for multi backend mode
* Create historian metrics and dependency inject
* Record counter for total number of state transitions logged
* Track write failures
* Track current number of active write goroutines
* Record histogram of how long it takes to write history data
* Don't copy the registerer
* Adjust naming of write failures metric
* Introduce WritesTotal to complement WritesFailedTotal
* Measure TransitionsFailedTotal to complement TransitionsTotal
* Rename all to state_history
* Remove redundant Total suffix
* Increment totals all the time, not just on success
* Drop ActiveWriteGoroutines
* Drop PersistDuration in favor of WriteDuration
* Drop unused gauge
* Make writes and writesFailed per org
* Add metric indicating backend and a spot for future metadata
* Drop _batch_ from names and update help
* Add metric for bytes written
* Better pairing of total + failure metric updates
* Few tweaks to wording and naming
* Record info metric during composition
* Create fakeRequester and simple happy path test using it
* Blocking test for the full historian and test for happy path metrics
* Add tests for failure case metrics
* Smoke test for full annotation persistence
* Create test for metrics on annotation persistence, both happy and failing paths
* Address linter complaints
* More linter complaints
* Remove unnecessary whitespace
* Consistency improvements to help texts
* Update tests to match new descs
* Fix json serialization of state values
* Simplify two of the tests
* Fix linter complaint
* Don't return error if we fail to look up dashboard, just log it and move on
* Address linter complaint
Mariell Hoversholm
Yuri Tseretyan
Steve Simpson
Alexander Weaver
William Wernert
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Serge Zaitsev
George Robinson