Annotations

Grafana HTTP API Data Source supports retrieving annotations to display filtered annotations and alerts from local and remote Grafana instances.

Grafana HTTP API Data Source works with Grafana configuration database.

Tutorials

Annotation Types

This introductory video highlights the differences and similarities between Grafana alerts, annotations, and annotation queries.

Annotations, Alerts, and Annotation queries in Grafana explained.

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.

Annotations and Alerts tutorial for Grafana with Timescale.

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 Grafana HTTP API Data Source to retrieve Alerting annotations filtered with text pattern.

Alerts

Annotation List

The native Annotation List panel does not show Alerts since it's filtering annotations with a specific type.

The Grafana HTTP API data source allows retrieving annotations and alerts to display using any available panel in your style.

Display Annotations for Generated Alerts and Operator Actions.