Annotations
Business Satellite Data Source supports retrieving annotations to display filtered annotations and alerts from local and remote Grafana instances.
![Business Satellite Data Source works with Grafana configuration database.](/img/plugins/business-satellite/schema.png)
Tutorials
Annotation Types
This introductory video highlights the differences and similarities between Grafana alerts, annotations, and annotation queries.
How to and Demo
In this tutorial, we look at the concept from a data flow point of view and provide step-by-step instructions which you can follow and learn as you go.
Options
Filter | Options |
---|---|
Type | All, Annotation, or Alert. |
Dashboards | All or This. |
Time Range | None or Selected in the dashboard. |
Prev State | All, Normal, Pending, or Alerting. |
Next State | All, Normal, Pending, or Alerting. |
Text Pattern | Supports Regular expressions and variables. |
Max Limit | Maximum number of annotations to retrieve. Default 100. |
Dashboard Annotations
![Dashboard annotations use Business Satellite Data Source to retrieve Alerting annotations filtered with text pattern.](/img/plugins/business-satellite/annotations.png)
Alerts
Annotation List
The native Annotation List panel does not show Alerts since it's filtering annotations with a specific type.
The Business Satellite data source allows retrieving annotations and alerts to display using any available panel in your style.
![Display Annotations for Generated Alerts and Operator Actions.](/img/plugins/business-satellite/alerts.png)