Update docs regarding Grafana as an alert receiver (#59938)

* Update docs regarding Grafana as an alert receiver

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As an example, if the current Prometheus version is `2.31.1`, we support >= `2.29.0`.
## Grafana is not an alert receiver
## The Grafana Alertmanager can only receive Grafana managed alerts
Grafana is not an alert receiver; it is an alert generator. This means that Grafana cannot receive alerts from anything other than its internal alert generator.
Grafana cannot be used to receive external alerts. You can only send alerts to the Grafana Alertmanager using Grafana managed alerts.
Receiving alerts from Prometheus (or anything else) is not supported at the time.
You have the option to send Grafana managed alerts to an external Alertmanager, you can find this option in the admin tab on the Alerting page.
For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773).
For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773). To learn more about the different Alertmanagers, read [this documentation]({{< relref "../alerting/manage-notifications/alertmanager/" >}})