Application Observability service overview annotations

You can enable Application Observability to display annotations in the service overview duration panel.

Note
When you create annotations, they display only for the specific service that you designate.

Create annotations

You must define the following tags to view annotations correctly:

service.name=name-of-service: The service overview always adds the service name to the query
service.namespace=my-namespace: If the service has a namespace, you must also add this tag
deployment.environment=name-of-environment: If you selected an environment value in the service overview, you must also add the configured environment attribute. For example, deployment.environment=oteldemo01. If you have customized the name of the environment semantic attribute on the Settings tab of the Configuration page, then you should use that name instead. For example, deployment.environment.name=oteldemo01.

The following example shows how to create service view annotations:

POST /api/annotations HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "time":1507037197339,
  "timeEnd":0,
  "tags":["service.name=cartservice","service.namespace=oteldemo01"],
  "text":"Annotation Description"
}