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page_title: Annotations
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page_description: Annotations user guide
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page_keywords: grafana, annotations, guide, documentation
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# Annotations
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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 title, tags, and text information for the event.
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To add an annotation query click dashboard settings icon in top menu and select `Annotations` from the
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dropdown. This will open the `Annotations` edit view. Click the `Add` tab to add a new annotation query.
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## Graphite annotations
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Graphite supports two ways to query annotations.
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- A regular metric query, use the `Graphite target expression` text input for this
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- Graphite events query, use the `Graphite event tags` text input, specify an tag or wildcard (leave empty should also work)
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## Elasticsearch annotations
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Grafana can query any Elasticsearch index for annotation events. The index name can be the name of an alias or an index wildcard pattern.
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You can leave the search query blank or specify a lucene query.
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If your elasticsearch document has a timestamp field other than `@timestamp` you will need to specify that. As well
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as the name for the fields that should be used for the annotation title, tags and text. Tags and text are optional.
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> **Note** The annotation timestamp field in elasticsearch need to be in UTC format.
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## InfluxDB Annotations
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For InfluxDB you need to enter a query like in the above screenshot. You need to have the ```where $timeFilter``` part.
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If you only select one column you will not need to enter anything in the column mapping fields.
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