Grafana annotations
(optional) select an end time field if you want the annotation to show up as an area on the graph.Ĩ. To create a new annotation query hit the New button.ĥ. This will open the dashboard annotations settings view.ģ. To add a new annotation query to a dashboard:Ģ. The annotation configurations can be reordered to give priority to certain annotations. That is, the lower the step size, the fewer annotations can potentially clutter the panels. This can be done using Grafana Annotations. For example, if a specific event happened that affected the data, it makes sense to leave a note describing the event directly on the graph. There are various reasons a user might want to do this. Grafana only shows one annotation per step. Grafana annotations are for users who want to make notes directly onto the graphs in their dashboards. Grafana will query DataSet for any logs matching the user-provided query, transform them into the format Grafana expects for annotations, and then pass them back to Grafana, which will show them as vertical lines on the user's graphs. With too many annotations in a small window, all the horizontal lines take away the focus of the underlying graph. And annotations based upon the queries will be populated on the Grafana dashboard Querying DataSet Data Source for AnnotationsĪnnotation events can be fetched via annotation queries. Fill out the form that pops up by providing a description and tag.Īdding tags to the annotation will make it searchable from other dashboards. grafana/annotations. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more. Just Hold CMD + Click, this will add an annotation at the selected timestamp that will be stored in Grafana database. Adding annotation is very easy and convenient since Grafana 4.6. You can add one-off annotations easily to a graph.Ģ. The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Grafana comes with a native annotation API, that can store and retrieve annotations for dashboards. For example, create an annotation query named outages, and. from the native annotation store by using the - Grafana -data source and setting Filter by to Tags. When you pause on an annotation, you can see an event description and event tags.
To use annotations, make sure you are using the stable release of the Grafana plugin. Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. The text field can include links to other systems with more detail. When you hover over an annotation you can get event description and event tags. Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. To display the Flux notifications on Grafana dashboards you can configure Flux to push events to Grafana annotations.