feature request: add sprig library or other library for templating support

Why is this needed:

The Grafana templates are low in features, with not fully oddly documented template functions. They are not documented https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/templates/ not at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/configure-notifications/template-notifications/reference/ , but at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/alerting-rules/templating-labels-annotations/ .

There are not enough functions for good templating.

In particular I am writing grafana alerts where different people have to be tagged on Microsoft Teams depending on if the input label matches a specific regex. It is not possible to if match a label with a regex, it is not possible to split a string.

What would you like to be added:

There is sprig library https://masterminds.github.io/sprig/ . Please add it in all templating contexts to be available.

Who is this feature for?

For any programmers that write grafana alerts.

For example hashicorp/nomad added all sprig library with sprig_ prefix for templating not to break backward compatibility: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/0f6561bdfe93d2a5d387c5b0ebbbc946130ed436/command/data_format.go#L108

Thanks!

Start by inventorying the repository's alerting template contexts and their existing function registration, then compare the compatibility approach in the linked Nomad data_format.go example with Sprig's documented functions. Confirm the regex and string-splitting use cases and define what “all templating contexts” covers; done means the selected functions are available without breaking existing templates and are covered by tests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.