chore(smoke-tests): bump ClickHouse 25.12 -> 26.8 (#3498)

`smoke-tests/otel-collector/docker-compose.yaml` is the only compose file still on `clickhouse-server:25.12-alpine`; the root, CI, dev and e2e compose files and the all-in-one Dockerfile are on 26.8 (an LTS line that has received the recent ClickHouse Server security fixes). This aligns it.

Not run locally: the otel-collector smoke test should be run in CI. No changeset: test-only change.

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Co-authored-by: Drew Davis <6097246+pulpdrew@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: Flipmonster

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -194,10 +194,9 @@ jobs:
         id: changed-files
         uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v47.0.6
         with:
-          # The ClickHouse config is mounted into both ch-server (via
-          # docker-compose.ci.yml) and ch-server-compat, which pins an older
-          # ClickHouse -- a config feature the old server rejects takes the
-          # whole suite down, so changes to it run these tests.
+          # The ClickHouse config is mounted into ch-server (via
+          # docker-compose.ci.yml) -- a config change the server rejects takes
+          # the whole suite down, so changes to it run these tests.
           files: |
             docker/otel-collector/**
             smoke-tests/otel-collector/**

smoke-tests/otel-collector/README.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The suite exercises all three OTLP signal types against the standalone
 collector config (`docker/otel-collector/config.standalone.yaml`):
 
 - **logs** - severity inference/normalization, JSON auto-parse, JSON-schema
-  exporter, compat-schema (old ClickHouse), custom-pipeline processor swap, and
+  exporter, custom-pipeline processor swap, and
   the `routing/logs` connector that splits rrweb (session replay) logs into
   `hyperdx_sessions` from ordinary logs in `otel_logs`.
 - **traces** - the `traces` pipeline into `otel_traces` (`traces.bats`).

smoke-tests/otel-collector/ch-compat-config.d/remove-prometheus-api.xml

@@ -158,55 +158,6 @@ services:
     networks:
       - internal
 
-  # Older ClickHouse (< 26.2) to test the compatibility schema (bloom filters
-  # instead of full text indexes)
-  ch-server-compat:
-    image: clickhouse/clickhouse-server:25.12-alpine
-    environment:
-      CLICKHOUSE_DEFAULT_ACCESS_MANAGEMENT: 1
-    volumes:
-      - ../../docker/clickhouse/local/config.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/config.xml
-      - ../../docker/clickhouse/local/users.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/users.xml
-      - ./ch-compat-config.d/remove-prometheus-api.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/remove-prometheus-api.xml:ro
-    ports:
-      - 29000:9000
-      - 28123:8123
-    networks:
-      - internal
-    healthcheck:
-      test:
-        wget -O /dev/null --no-verbose --tries=1 http://127.0.0.1:8123/ping ||
-        exit 1
-      interval: 5s
-      timeout: 3s
-      retries: 5
-      start_period: 10s
-  otel-collector-compat:
-    build:
-      context: ../..
-      dockerfile: docker/otel-collector/Dockerfile
-      target: dev
-      args:
-        OTEL_COLLECTOR_VERSION: ${OTEL_COLLECTOR_VERSION:-0.155.0}
-        OTEL_COLLECTOR_CORE_VERSION: ${OTEL_COLLECTOR_CORE_VERSION:-1.61.0}
-    environment:
-      - CLICKHOUSE_ENDPOINT=tcp://ch-server-compat:9000?dial_timeout=10s
-      - CLICKHOUSE_PROMETHEUS_METRICS_ENDPOINT=ch-server-compat:9363
-      - CLICKHOUSE_USER=default
-      - CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=
-      - HYPERDX_OTEL_EXPORTER_CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE=default
-      - HYPERDX_LOG_LEVEL=info
-      # See the note on the otel-collector service above for rationale.
-      - HYPERDX_OTEL_BATCH_TIMEOUT=100ms
-      # OPAMP_SERVER_URL is intentionally not set to run in standalone mode
-    ports:
-      - 24318:4318 # OTLP http receiver
-    networks:
-      - internal
-    depends_on:
-      ch-server-compat:
-        condition: service_healthy
-
   # Static bearer-token auth (see docker/otel-collector/config.standalone.auth.yaml).
   # Verifies both accepted Authorization header forms end-to-end: the bare
   # token and the `Bearer `-prefixed value.