5.01 Annotations - MartinWong06/grafana GitHub Wiki

Annotations

Annotations are used to add additional context to a graph or panel. Annotations can be used to highlight specific events, mark significant changes, or indicate outages or maintenance periods

Annotations can be edited or deleted at any time by clicking on the annotation in the Annotations tab and selecting the appropriate action.

3 types

1. Native
2. Alert
3. Annotation Query

Example https://github.com/MartinWong06/grafana/wiki/9.01-GitHub-Connection

Label

labels are used to organize and group time series data, while annotations are used to provide additional context and information to a visualization.

Label are key-value pairs that are associated with a metric or time series, and can be used to filter, sort, and aggregate data.

Demo Steps