Update RabbitMQ Dashboards to support latest Grafana versions

[coro]

Proposed Changes

Grafana unofficially supports n-1 major versions, with the latest being, at time of writing, 9.0.6. This PR does the following:

• Updates minimum Grafana versions on the dashboards to 8.3.4
  • This is not 8.0.0 because there were a handful of bugs which prevented some fields working
• Migrates any dashboard panels on deprecated types to their new types
  • Graph (old) -> Time Series or Histogram (beta)
  • Table (old) -> Table
• Fixes the distribution link graphs to work in Grafana 8&9
  • There was a bug in how the y-axis was rendered, meaning the entries for a peer were conflated
  • e.g. A->B and C->B were showing in the same row, leading to half the true amount of links
• Fixes the RabbitMQ-Overview graph not displaying correctly on Grafana 9
  • Several graphs had the decimal option for the y-axis set to -1, which causes console errors in Grafana 9
• Vastly simplified the process of updating the dashboards
  • The dashboards stored in this repo now match that which we upload to Grafana 1-1, rather than requiring us to inject fields like __inputs unnecessarily
  • The dashboards are now directly exported from Grafana with their Export functionality
  • Also added a README.md with a proposed process of how future updates work
• Tweaked the 'latency distribution' graphs to use histogram formats instead
  • This improves their readability compared with the old graph style

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Further Comments

I have tested this on Grafana versions 3.8.4 and 9.0.6, through both the make targets in the repo and on a seperate Kubernetes cluster running the kube-prometheus stack.

This is part of a wider change to update the dashboards in this issue. The next step is to migrate the metrics from aggregated metrics to the more accurate global metrics as per #3127 (comment)

[ikavgo]

I think it is safe to merge this one. README script works, no errors on dashboards, they look clean and native grafana export produces exactly same json as in the repo (ignoring version bump of course).

[michaelklishin]

@Mergifyio backport v3.11.x v3.10.x v3.9.x

[mergify]

backport v3.11.x v3.10.x v3.9.x

✅ Backports have been created

• #5652 Update RabbitMQ Dashboards to support latest Grafana versions (backport #5449) has been created for branch v3.11.x
• #5653 Update RabbitMQ Dashboards to support latest Grafana versions (backport #5449) has been created for branch v3.10.x
• #5654 Update RabbitMQ Dashboards to support latest Grafana versions (backport #5449) has been created for branch v3.9.x