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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Annotating dashboards

Annotations are a versatile mechanism to highlight individual events in a time series. By singling out a single data point at a particular time and marking it with metadata, you have the capability to mark up your dashboard panels with rich data, such as text and tagging. Grafana provides two annotation capabilities to choose from – native annotation queries are created interactively and stored with the dashboard on the Grafana server, while data source annotation queries are created as data source queries, with the query and annotation configuration stored with the dashboard.

Annotating the graph panel

Since data source annotations can be resource-intensive, we’ll demonstrate annotation with just a single-panel dashboard. Create a new dashboard and a single Time series panel with the following settings:

  • Data Source: Elasticsearch
  • Query: RequestType:Graffiti
  • Query options | Min interval: 1h
  • Legend | Visibility: on
  • Graph...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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