Prometheus - v2.44.0

This version is built with Go tag stringlabels, to use the smaller data
structure for Labels that was optional in the previous release. For more
details about this code change see #10991.

• [CHANGE] Remote-write: Raise default samples per send to 2,000. #12203
• [FEATURE] Remote-read: Handle native histograms. #12085, #12192
• [FEATURE] Promtool: Health and readiness check of prometheus server in CLI. #12096
• [FEATURE] PromQL: Add query_samples_total metric, the total number of samples loaded by all queries. #12251
• [ENHANCEMENT] Storage: Optimise buffer used to iterate through samples. #12326
• [ENHANCEMENT] Scrape: Reduce memory allocations on target labels. #12084
• [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Use faster heap method for topk() / bottomk(). #12190
• [ENHANCEMENT] Rules API: Allow filtering by rule name. #12270
• [ENHANCEMENT] Native Histograms: Various fixes and improvements. #11687, #12264, #12272
• [ENHANCEMENT] UI: Search of scraping pools is now case-insensitive. #12207
• [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Add an affirmative log message for successful WAL repair. #12135
• [BUGFIX] TSDB: Block compaction failed when shutting down. #12179
• [BUGFIX] TSDB: Out-of-order chunks could be ignored if the write-behind log was deleted. #12127

Images are available on Docker Hub: docker pull prom/prometheus:v2.44.0