query: UI doesn't persist Thanos-specific settings

[SuperQ]

When using the Thanos query UI, the additional settings like "deduplication", "partial response", etc are not persisted to the URL the same way settings like "stacked" are. This makes it difficult to share URLs.

Also problematic is that the UI defaults to "Only raw data", which can be expensive on large queries.

[SuperQ]

It looks like this was at least partially fixed by #1463.

[FUSAKLA]

Agree this is annoying. Quickly looking at the UI it should be only:

• deduplication
• partial response

Regarding the default down sampling, would you suggest the automatic as a default?

[SuperQ]

Yes, I think automatic should be the default.

[bwplotka]

User can decide what is by default using query.auto-downsampling

In terms of URL settings, we added downsampling parameter: #1562 definitely this issue is valid to add all of them.

[SuperQ]

@bwplotka That seems to only affect queries from things like Grafana. When you use the UI, it has separate defaults that aren't affected by the command line flag.

[bwplotka]

Ah, good point, then I think either this flag should set this default, or we should have another. I think the former is preferable.

[obiesmans]

@bwplotka : maybe a thanos-specific datasource for grafana could be a neat long-term solution ?

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