fix(lab): make Asterisk logs usable — drop ANSI codes and healthcheck noise

Logging was configured correctly and shipping to Loki, but the stream was
useless: measured at 100% healthcheck chatter, with every line wrapped in ANSI
escape codes. The real SIP events were there and completely buried.

Three causes, each masking the next:

- asterisk.conf was written in the first lab commit with `nocolor = yes` and
  never mounted, so the setting had no effect. Now mounted. It was also
  overriding [directories] and runuser/rungroup, which the image sets up
  correctly itself — removed, since overriding them risks breaking the
  container for no gain.

- The image's command is `-vvvdddf`: verbosity 3 and debug 3 forced on the
  command line, which overrides both asterisk.conf and logger.conf. Overridden
  in compose to drop -v and -d; warnings and errors still log, and verbosity
  is raisable at runtime when tracing a call.

- The actual source: the image's healthcheck makes ~7 separate `asterisk -rx`
  connections every 30s, and Asterisk logs a connect/disconnect pair for each.
  Replaced with a single check on a 60s interval, and the check now runs
  `pjsip show transports` rather than `core show version` — that fails when
  Asterisk is up but unconfigured, which is exactly the state that produced a
  "healthy" container with no SIP stack on first deploy.

logger.conf drops both `notice` and `verbose`, which is where those pairs
arrive.

Verified on galatea: noise down from ~48 to 8 lines per two minutes (-83%),
zero ANSI codes in Loki, 90% of the stream now signal, container still
healthy, transport and dialplan intact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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; Minimal Asterisk core config for the lab.
[directories](!)
astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astdbdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astkeydir => /var/lib/asterisk
astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
astsbindir => /usr/sbin
;
; Deliberately does NOT set [directories] or runuser/rungroup: the image's
; compiled-in defaults are correct, and it runs as the `asterisk` user via a
; USER directive. Overriding either risks breaking the container for no gain
; (an earlier version of this file did both).
[options]
; Log to stdout so Docker's json-file driver captures it and Alloy ships it.
; A file-based log inside the container would be invisible to Loki.
; Log to stdout so Docker's json-file driver captures it and Alloy ships it
; to Loki. A file-based log inside the container would be invisible.
verbose = 3
debug = 0
; No ANSI colour. Asterisk colourises the console by default and the escape
; codes travel through Docker into Loki, where every line arrives wrapped in
; \x1b[0;30m — unreadable in Grafana and awkward to filter on. This setting
; lives here, not in logger.conf, and only takes effect if this file is
; actually mounted into the container.
nocolor = yes
dumpcore = no
; Never run as root inside the container.
runuser = asterisk
rungroup = asterisk