Query getting escaped weird

[WillPlatnick]

In my canary, I have this for a metric to capture requests:

      - name: "status"
        threshold: 1
        interval: 1m
        query: ((sum(rate(nginx_http_requests_total{kubernetes_namespace="movies",host="_",status=~"499",kubernetes_pod_name=~"staging-[0-9a-zA-Z]+(-[0-9a-zA-Z]+)",}[1m])) or vector(0)) + sum(rate(nginx_http_requests_total{kubernetes_namespace="movies",host="_",status=~"5..",kubernetes_pod_name=~"staging-[0-9a-zA-Z]+(-[0-9a-zA-Z]+)",}[1m])) or vector(0)) / sum(rate(nginx_http_requests_total{kubernetes_namespace="movies",host="_",kubernetes_pod_name=~"staging-[0-9a-zA-Z]+(-[0-9a-zA-Z]+)",}[1m])) * 100

In my logs, I get the error "Metrics server http://flagger-prometheus:9090 query failed for status: error response: {\"status\":\"error\",\"errorType\":\"bad_data\",\"error\":\"invalid parameter 'query': parse error at char 165: unexpected identifier \\\"orvector\\\" in paren expression, expected \\\")\\\"\"}"

It looks like it's getting rid of my spaces. I tried escaping spaces via \ and \\ but that didn't work either.

Does anybody have any hints on how to format this query? If I copy and paste the query into Prom it works just fine.