Unreachable OIDC discovery URL prevents startup

[weeco]

Version & Environment

Redpanda version: (use rpk version): v24.2.5

What went wrong?

I configured a OIDC discovery URL + OAuthBearer as a sasl mechanism. The OIDC discovery URL is unreachable and in that case the cluster fails to startup. It's spamming these log lines so frequently, that I cannot capture other logs.

WARN 2024-10-07 12:19:07,317 [shard 0:main] cluster - metrics_reporter.cc:349 - Failed to initialize cluster_id: cluster::errc:19
WARN 2024-10-07 12:19:07,317 [shard 0:main] cluster - metrics_reporter.cc:349 - Failed to initialize cluster_id: cluster::errc:19
WARN 2024-10-07 12:19:07,317 [shard 0:main] cluster - metrics_reporter.cc:349 - Failed to initialize cluster_id: cluster::errc:19
WARN 2024-10-07 12:19:07,317 [shard 0:main] cluster - metrics_reporter.cc:349 - Failed to initialize cluster_id: cluster::errc:19
WARN 2024-10-07 12:19:07,318 [shard 0:main] cluster - metrics_reporter.cc:349 - Failed to initialize cluster_id: cluster::errc:19

What should have happened instead?

I imagine the OIDC discovery process is important, but should not prevent a startup.

How to reproduce the issue?

Additional information

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