Update docker.io/prom/prometheus Docker tag to v3.7.3

Update docker.io/prom/prometheus Docker tag to v3.7.3
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This MR contains the following updates:

Package Update Change
docker.io/prom/prometheus minor v3.6.0 -> v3.7.3

Release Notes

prometheus/prometheus (docker.io/prom/prometheus)

v3.7.3: 3.7.3 / 2025-10-29

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  • [BUGFIX] UI: Revert changed (and breaking) redirect behavior for -web.external-url if -web.route-prefix is configured, which was introduced in #​17240. #​17389
  • [BUGFIX] Fix federation of some native histograms. #​17299 #​17409
  • [BUGFIX] promtool: check config would fail when --lint=none flag was set. #​17399 #​17414
  • [BUGFIX] Remote-write: fix a deadlock in the queue resharding logic that can lead to suboptimal queue behavior. #​17412

v3.7.2: 3.7.2 / 2025-10-22

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  • [BUGFIX] AWS SD: Fix AWS SDK v2 credentials handling for EC2 and Lightsail discovery. #​17355
  • [BUGFIX] AWS SD: Load AWS region from IMDS when not set. #​17376
  • [BUGFIX] Relabeling: Fix labelmap action validation with the legacy metric name validation scheme. #​17372
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Fix parsing failure when anchored and smoothed are used as metric names and label names. #​17353
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Fix formatting of range vector selectors with smoothed/anchored modifier. #​17354

v3.7.1: 3.7.1 / 2025-10-16

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  • [BUGFIX] OTLP: Prefix key_ to label name when translating an OTel attribute name starting with a single underscore, and keep multiple consecutive underscores in label name when translating an OTel attribute name. This reverts the breaking changes introduced in 3.7.0. #​17344

v3.7.0: 3.7.0 / 2025-10-15

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Warning

We discovered a breaking change in the OTLP endpoint: OpenTelemetry attribute names starting with underscore, for example _attrib, are no longer automatically translated to key_attrib. Please use 3.7.1 instead for OTLP ingestion.

Changelog

  • [CHANGE] Remote-write: the following metrics are deprecated:
    • prometheus_remote_storage_samples_in_total, use prometheus_wal_watcher_records_read_total{type="samples"} and prometheus_remote_storage_samples_dropped_total instead,
    • prometheus_remote_storage_histograms_in_total, use prometheus_wal_watcher_records_read_total{type=~".*histogram_samples"} and prometheus_remote_storage_histograms_dropped_total instead,
    • prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_in_total, use prometheus_wal_watcher_records_read_total{type="exemplars"} and prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_dropped_total instead,
    • prometheus_remote_storage_highest_timestamp_in_seconds, use the more accurate prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_timestamp_seconds instead in dashboards and alerts to properly account for relabeling and for more accuracy. #​17065
  • [FEATURE] PromQL: Add support for experimental anchored and smoothed rate behind feature flag promql-extended-range-selectors. #​16457
  • [FEATURE] Federation: Add support for native histograms with custom buckets (NHCB). #​17215
  • [FEATURE] PromQL: Add first_over_time(...) and ts_of_first_over_time(...) behind feature flag experimental-promql-functions. #​16963 #​17021
  • [FEATURE] Remote-write: Add support for Azure Workload Identity as an authentication method for the receiver. #​16788
  • [FEATURE] Remote-write: Add type and unit labels to outgoing time series in remote-write 2.0 when the type-and-unit-labels feature flag is enabled. #​17033
  • [FEATURE] OTLP: Write start time of metrics as created time zero samples into TSDB when created-timestamp-zero-ingestion feature flag is enabled. #​16951
  • [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Add warn-level annotations for counter reset conflicts in certain histogram operations. #​17051 #​17094
  • [ENHANCEMENT] UI: Add scrape interval and scrape timeout to targets page. #​17158
  • [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Reduce the resolution of native histograms read from chunks or remote read if the schema is exponential. #​17213
  • [ENHANCEMENT] Remote write: Add logging for unexpected metadata in sample batches, when metadata entries are found in samples-only batches. #​17034 #​17082
  • [ENHANCEMENT] Rules: Support concurrent evaluation for rules querying ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_STATE. #​17064
  • [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Add logs to improve visibility into internal operations. #​17074
  • [PERF] OTLP: Write directly to TSDB instead of passing through a Remote-Write adapter when receiving OTLP metrics. #​16951
  • [PERF] OTLP: Reduce number of logs emitted from OTLP endpoint. No need to log duplicate sample errors. #​17201
  • [PERF] PromQL: Move more work to preprocessing step. #​16896
  • [PERF] PromQL: Reduce allocations when walking the syntax tree. #​16593
  • [PERF] TSDB: Optimize appender creation, slightly speeding up startup. #​16922
  • [PERF] TSDB: Improve speed of querying a series with multiple matchers. #​13971
  • [BUGFIX] Alerting: Mutating alerts relabeling (using replace actions, etc.) within a alertmanager_config.alert_relabel_configs block is now scoped correctly and no longer yields altered alerts to subsequent blocks. #​17063
  • [BUGFIX] Config: Infer valid escaping scheme when scrape config validation scheme is set. #​16923
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Correctly handle appending mixed-typed samples to the same series. #​17071 #​17241 #​17290 #​17295 #​17296
  • [BUGFIX] Remote-write: Prevent sending unsupported native histograms with custom buckets (NHCB) over Remote-write 1.0, log warning. #​17146
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Fix metadata entries handling on metadata-wal-records experimental feature for native histograms with custom buckets (NHCB) in protobuf scraping. #​17156
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Ignore Native Histograms with invalid schemas during WAL/WBL replay. #​17214
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Avoid empty metric names in annotations for histogram_quantile(). #​16794
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Correct inaccurate character positions in errors for some aggregate expressions. #​16996 #​17031
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Fix info() function on churning series. #​17135
  • [BUGFIX] PromQL: Set native histogram to gauge type when subtracting or multiplying/dividing with negative factors. #​17004
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Reject unsupported native histogram schemas when attempting to append to TSDB. For scrape and remote-write implement reducing the resolution to fit the maximum if the schema is within the -9 to 52. #​17189
  • [BUGFIX] Remote-write: Fix HTTP handler to return after writing error response for invalid compression. #​17050
  • [BUGFIX] Remote-write: Return HTTP error 400 instead of 5xx for wrongly formatted Native Histograms. #​17210
  • [BUGFIX] Scrape: Prevent staleness markers from generating unnecessary series. #​16429
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Avoid misleading Failed to calculate size of \"wal\" dir error logs during WAL clean-up. #​17006
  • [BUGFIX] TSDB: Prevent erroneously dropping series records during WAL checkpoints. #​17029
  • [BUGFIX] UI: Fix redirect to path of -web.external-url if -web.route-prefix is configured. #​17240
  • [BUGIFX] Remote-write: Do not panic on invalid symbol table in remote-write 2.0. #​17160

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