cleanup: deprecate rate limiter mechanism #2762
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What type of PR is this?
/kind cleanup
Any specific area of the project related to this PR?
/area engine
What this PR does / why we need it:
This PR deprecates the rate limiter mechanism since it seems to be no longer used and moreover, it discards events, so one can potentially lose critical alerts. For this reason, it's not enabled by default.
See this discussion for more details #2711 (comment)
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