Cluster observability operator UI Plugin showing the error UIPluginFailedToReconciled in RHOCP 4

Issue

• After migrating Red Hat Openshift Logging from v5 to v6 and while deploying the UIPlugin, it reports UIPluginFailedToReconciled error:

  2025-02-04T15:11:09.550313913Z 2025-02-04T15:11:09Z     ERROR   Reconciler error        {"controller": "uiplugin", "controllerGroup": "observability.openshift.io", "controllerKind": "UIPlugin", "UIPlugin": {"name":"logging"}, "namespace": "", "name": "logging", "reconcileID": "012c3c4c-abcd-efgh-ijkl-123456789cc9", "error": "/logging-view-plugin (console.openshift.io/v1, Kind=ConsolePlugin): updater failed to patch: errors:\n  .spec.proxy[0].authorization: field not declared in schema\n  .spec.backend: field not declared in schema"}
  

• Logs tab is not visible in the OpenShift Console after upgrading from Logging v5 to Logging v6

• logging-xxxxx-xxx pod under openshift-operators namespace is in ContainerCreating state:

  NAME                                                             READY   STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
  
  pod/logging-9c999c9c9c-abcde                                     0/1     ContainerCreating   0          5m
  

• logging-xxxxx-xxx pod under openshift-cluster-observability-operator namespace is in ContainerCreating status

• After upgrading OpenShift cluster from 4.16 to 4.18, the distributed-tracing UIPlugin reports UIPluginFailedToReconciled error:

  /distributed-tracing-console-plugin (console.openshift.io/v1, Kind=ConsolePlugin): updater failed to patch: .spec.proxy[0].authorization: field not declared in schema