Plugins 〉Simple Annotations

This plugin has been deprecated as it is no longer maintained, and requires new maintainers and contributions. For an alternative, check for existing annotation support within your datasources.

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Simple Annotations

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Grafana Simple Annotations Plugin

Frustrated with using a datasource that doesn't support annotations?

This is a simple annotation plugin for Grafana that works with any Datasource!

It works by using the dashboard.json itself as the store for annotations -- this means that you can easily backup / save / share your annotations.

  "annotations": {
    "list": [
      {
        "datasource": "${DS_SIMPLE_ANNOTATION}",
        "enable": true,
        "hide": false,
        "iconColor": "rgba(255, 96, 96, 1)",
        "limit": 100,
        "name": "Deployments",
        "queries": [
          {
            "date": "2017-09-03T19:56:36.000Z",
            "text": "First Deployment"
          },
          {
            "date": "2017-09-03T20:56:53.000Z",
            "text": "Second Deployment"
          },
          {
            "date": "2017-09-03T21:56:56.000Z",
            "text": "Third Deployment"
          }
        ],
        "showIn": 0,
        "type": "alert"
      }
    ]
  },

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Development

mkdir grafana
export GOPATH=`pwd`
go get github.com/grafana/grafana
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/grafana
go run build.go setup
go run build.go build
npm install
npm install -g grunt-cli
grunt
mkdir -p data/plugins
ln -s ~/Development/simple-annotations data/plugins/simple-annotations
./bin/grafana-server