How would I add an annotation?

[minimedj]

Hi guys,

I have grafana with elastic search installed. I can create dashboards and save them - everything works as expected.

But I cannot figure out how to create annotations... I see that there are two types of annotations available: metric and event. What is a difference?

I simple want to manually put a mark (I suppose it is an annotation) on the chart that will indicate some event in my infrastructure.

If there any tutorial available for this?

Thank you in advance!

[torkelo]

@minimedj Here is the documentation, http://grafana.org/docs/features/annotations/

The documentation is not that complete (will try to improve it this autumn). Currently Grafana only supports annotations from graphite metrics (regular graphite metrics), and graphite events (Graphite feature that can save event, timestamp and metadata).

Currently working on adding support for fetching annotations from InfluxDB and Elasticsearch. There is currently no way to create annotations in grafana only fetch. Creating annotations is something I definitely want to add.

[nanowish]

Hi torkelo,

I don't understand what I can set in "Graphite target expression" ?

Thanks

[torkelo]

Any graphite query would do, for example,
alias (my.deploy.counter, 'deploy')

[nanowish]

I have a event with tag ansible-deploy, when I added my tag in Graphite event tags this work.

Now with existing test metric my.deploy.counter , nothing appears. I trying to add this metric in panel and in 'Graphite target expression'. Trying to add in 'Graphite target expression' and my event tag, nothing too.

Annotation appears only with my event tag.

[softwareklinic]

Can we add annotations back in time --- if i want to assign specific annotations for past 3 dates of deployments?

[danhallin]

If your underlying database supports assigning annotations back in time, yes. Graphite does have support for that.

[softwareklinic]

Thank you. We were able to figure it out using both the DJango admin console and the CURL.

Thank you very much for the response and help.

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If your underlying database supports assigning annotations back in time, yes. Graphite does have support for that.

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[cojack]

@torkelo any example how to add metrics with annotations in graph panel?