How to troubleshoot PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps alerts in RHOCP 4

Issue

• The following alert is firing in the cluster:

    description: Prometheus openshift-monitoring/prometheus-k8s-1 is dropping 0.007407
      samples/s with different values but duplicated timestamp.
    runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps.md
    summary: Prometheus is dropping samples with duplicate timestamps.
  

• Prometheus pods showing the error:

  ts=2025-01-24T09:14:41.847Z caller=scrape.go:1744 level=warn component="scrape manager" scrape_pool=serviceMonitor/openshift-monitoring/openshift-state-metrics/0 target=https://10.128.2.9:8443/metrics msg="Error on ingesting samples with different value but same timestamp" num_dropped=1