Proposed title of this feature request

Ability to modify Prometheus scrape interval without setting CMO to unmanaged

What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer would like to be able to modify the scrape interval in Prometheus without setting the cluster-monitoring-operator to unmanaged

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements)

The main concern with setting cluster-monitoring-operator to unmanaged is that it would block upgrades. In which case the customer would need to:

• Set the operator to managed before an upgrade
• Perform the cluster upgrade
• Unmanage the operator again
• Reconfigure scrape interval settings

If they could edit the scrape interval without setting the cluster-monitoring-operator to unmanged, it would save some extra steps for them.

List any affected packages or components.

• Prometheus
• cluster-monitoring-operator