Log Message:
prometheus: update to 2.50.0.

## 2.50.0 / 2024-02-22

* [CHANGE] Remote Write: Error `storage.ErrTooOldSample` is now generating HTTP \ 
error 400 instead of HTTP error 500. #13335
* [FEATURE] Remote Write: Drop old inmemory samples. Activated using the config \ 
entry `sample_age_limit`. #13002
* [FEATURE] **Experimental**: Add support for ingesting zeros as created \ 
timestamps. (enabled under the feature-flag `created-timestamp-zero-ingestion`). \ 
#12733 #13279
* [FEATURE] Promtool: Add `analyze` histograms command. #12331
* [FEATURE] TSDB/compaction: Add a way to enable overlapping compaction. #13282 \ 
#13393 #13398
* [FEATURE] Add automatic memory limit handling. Activated using the feature \ 
flag. `auto-gomemlimit` #13395
* [ENHANCEMENT] Promtool: allow specifying multiple matchers in `promtool tsdb \ 
dump`. #13296
* [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Restore more efficient version of \ 
`NewPossibleNonCounterInfo` annotation. #13022
* [ENHANCEMENT] Kuma SD: Extend configuration to allow users to specify client \ 
ID. #13278
* [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Use natural sort in `sort_by_label` and \ 
`sort_by_label_desc`. This is **experimental**. #13411
* [ENHANCEMENT] Native Histograms: support `native_histogram_min_bucket_factor` \ 
in scrape_config. #13222
* [ENHANCEMENT] Native Histograms: Issue warning if histogramRate is applied to \ 
the wrong kind of histogram. #13392
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Make transaction isolation data structures smaller. #13015
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB/postings: Optimize merge using Loser Tree. #12878
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Simplify internal series delete function. #13261
* [ENHANCEMENT] Agent: Performance improvement by making the global hash lookup \ 
table smaller. #13262
* [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: faster execution of metric functions, e.g. abs(), rate() \ 
#13446
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Optimize label values with matchers by taking shortcuts. #13426
* [ENHANCEMENT] Kubernetes SD: Check preconditions earlier and avoid unnecessary \ 
checks or iterations in kube_sd. #13408
* [ENHANCEMENT] Promtool: Improve visibility for `promtool test rules` with JSON \ 
colored formatting. #13342
* [ENHANCEMENT] Consoles: Exclude iowait and steal from CPU Utilisation. #9593
* [ENHANCEMENT] Various improvements and optimizations on Native Histograms. \ 
#13267, #13215, #13276 #13289, #13340
* [BUGFIX] Scraping: Fix quality value in HTTP Accept header. #13313
* [BUGFIX] UI: Fix usage of the function `time()` that was crashing. #13371
* [BUGFIX] Azure SD: Fix SD crashing when it finds a VM scale set. #13578