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aliases:
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- /docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/annotations/
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- /docs/grafana/latest/reference/annotations/
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- /docs/grafana/next/dashboards/build-dashboards/annotate-visualizations/
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keywords:
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- grafana
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- annotations
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- documentation
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- guide
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title: Annotate visualizations
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menuTitle: Annotate visualizations
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weight: 600
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---
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# Annotate visualizations
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Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. When you hover over an annotation
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you can get event description and event tags. The text field can include links to other systems with more detail.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v46/annotations.png" max-width="800px" >}}
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## Native annotations
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Grafana comes with a native annotation store and the ability to add annotation events directly from the graph panel or via the [HTTP API]({{< relref "../../../developers/http_api/annotations/" >}}).
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### Add annotation
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1. In the dashboard click on the Time series panel. A context menu will appear.
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1. In the context menu click on **Add annotation**.
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1. Add an annotation description and tags(optional).
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1. Click save.
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Alternatively, to add an annotation, Ctrl/Cmd+Click on the Time series panel and the Add annotation popover will appear
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### Add region annotation
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1. In the dashboard Ctrl/Cmd+click and drag on the Time series panel.
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1. Add an annotation description and tags(optional).
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1. Click save.
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### Edit annotation
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1. In the dashboard hover over an annotation indicator on the Time series panel.
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1. Click on the pencil icon in the annotation tooltip.
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1. Modify the description and/or tags.
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1. Click save.
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### Delete annotation
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1. In the dashboard hover over an annotation indicator on the Time series panel.
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1. Click on the trash icon in the annotation tooltip.
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### Built-in query
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After you added an annotation they will still be visible. This is due to the built in annotation query that exists on all dashboards. This annotation query will
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fetch all annotation events that originate from the current dashboard and show them on the panel where they were created. This includes alert state history annotations. You can
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stop annotations from being fetched and drawn by opening the **Annotations** settings (via Dashboard cogs menu) and modifying the query named `Annotations & Alerts (Built-in)`.
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When you copy a dashboard using the **Save As** feature it will get a new dashboard id so annotations created on source dashboard will no longer be visible on the copy. You
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can still show them if you add a new **Annotation Query** and filter by tags. But this only works if the annotations on the source dashboard had tags to filter by.
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### Query by tag
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You can create new queries to fetch annotations from the native annotation store via the `-- Grafana --` data source by setting _Filter by_ to `Tags`.
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Grafana v8.1 and later versions also support typeahead of existing tags, provide at least one tag.
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For example, create an annotation query name `outages` and specify a tag `outage`. This query will show all annotations (from any dashboard or via API) with the `outage` tag. If multiple tags are defined in an annotation query, then Grafana will only show annotations matching all the tags. To modify the behavior, enable `Match any`, and Grafana will show annotations that contain any one of the tags you provided.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/annotations/annotations_typeahead_support-8-1-0.png" max-width="600px" >}}
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In Grafana v5.3+ it's possible to use template variables in the tag query. So if you have a dashboard showing stats for different services and a template variable that dictates which services to show, you can now use the same template variable in your annotation query to only show annotations for those services.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/annotations/annotation_tag_filter_variable-8-1-0.png" max-width="600px" >}}
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## Querying other data sources
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Annotation events are fetched via annotation queries. To add a new annotation query to a dashboard
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open the dashboard settings menu, then select `Annotations`. This will open the dashboard annotations
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settings view. To create a new annotation query hit the `New` button.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v50/annotation_new_query.png" max-width="600px" >}}
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Specify a name for the annotation query. This name is given to the toggle (checkbox) that will allow
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you to enable/disable showing annotation events from this query. For example you might have two
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annotation queries named `Deploys` and `Outages`. The toggle will allow you to decide what annotations
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to show.
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### Annotation query details
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The annotation query options are different for each data source. For information about annotations in a specific data source, refer to the specific [data source]({{< relref "../../../datasources/" >}}) topic.
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