Use annotations in dashboards

    Annotations may be useful to highlight operations or anomalies for your team to reference.

    1. Select an existing dashboard to add the annotation to, or create a new dashboard, and then click the Annotations button.

    2. In a dashboard cell, do one of the following:

      • Press Shift and click the graph at the time you want to annotate.
      • To add an annotation to a time range, press Shift, click the start time, and then drag your cursor to the end time.
      1. Verify the time or time range, and update if needed.
      2. Enter a message (maximum of 255 characters) to associate with the selected time or time range.
      3. Click Save Annotation. The annotation appears in the cell (dotted lines indicate the selected time or time range).

    1. Open the dashboard with the annotation to edit, and then click the annotation to open it.

    2. Update the text (maximum of 255 characters) or timestamp, and then click Save Annotation.

    By default, annotations are visible.

    1. Dashboards

    2. Open a dashboard with annotations:

      • To hide annotations, click the Annotations button. The button is gray when annotations are hidden.
      • To show annotations, click the Annotations button. The button is purple when annotations are visible.

    1. In the navigation menu on the left, select Boards (Dashboards).

      Dashboards

    2. Open a dashboard with the annotation to delete, click the dotted annotation line, and then click Delete Annotation.