feat: create alert rules for constantly syncing GitOps applications

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What does this PR do / why we need it:
See: GITOPS-10412

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• New Features

  • Added dedicated monitoring for Argo CD application synchronization behavior through separate sync-loop alerts.
  • New metrics and alerts identify sustained syncs, aggressive sync activity, and repeated sync failures.
  • Sync-loop alerts include warning, critical, and failure-loop severity levels while preserving standard Argo CD alerts.

• Bug Fixes

  • Disabling metrics now removes both standard Argo CD alerts and sync-loop alerts.

Walkthrough

The metrics controller now creates a separate sync-loop PrometheusRule with recording and alert rules. It manages both standard and sync-loop rules during enablement and cleanup. Unit and end-to-end tests validate rule contents, preservation, creation, and deletion.

Changes

Argo CD sync-loop metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sync-loop rule definition and reconciliation controllers/argocd_metrics_controller.go	Adds the sync-loop PrometheusRule name, recording rules, and alerts for sustained and repeated sync activity. Reconciliation creates both rules, handles lookup errors, assigns ownership, and deletes both rules when metrics are disabled.
Controller validation controllers/argocd_metrics_controller.go, controllers/argocd_metrics_controller_test.go	Tests verify rule contents, expressions, durations, labels, annotations, ownership, and deletion behavior.
End-to-end validation test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/parallel/*, test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/sequential/*	Validates sync-loop rule contents, preserves the standard rule, and checks enabled and disabled metrics states.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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The change adds management of sync-loop alert rules with no concrete merge-blocking risk established in the available evidence.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArgoCD
  participant MetricsController
  participant KubernetesAPI
  ArgoCD->>MetricsController: Reconcile with metrics enabled
  MetricsController->>KubernetesAPI: Create standard and sync-loop PrometheusRules
  ArgoCD->>MetricsController: Reconcile with metrics disabled
  MetricsController->>KubernetesAPI: Delete standard and sync-loop PrometheusRules

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test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/parallel/1-133_validate_argocd_sync_loop_alert_test.go (1)

23-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Add the openshift-gitops sync-loop alerts to the operator documentation.

The PR description states that documentation updates are required and are not yet done. The sibling repository documentation (docs/usage/monitoring.md in argoproj-labs/argocd-operator) also describes only the existing component-status rule. Add the new alert names, thresholds, and severities to the monitoring documentation of this repository.

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@svghadi @anandf PTAL when you get time. Thanks

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ci/prow/v4.14-kuttl-parallel	98212d0	link	false	/test v4.14-kuttl-parallel
ci/prow/v4.19-kuttl-sequential	98212d0	link	true	/test v4.19-kuttl-sequential

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