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Create or update annotation

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Create or update annotation

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Request

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POST /api/apm/services/:serviceName/annotation

Request body

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service

(required, object) Service identifying the configuration to create or update.

Properties of service

version: (required, string) Version of service.
environment: (optional, string) Environment of service.

@timestamp

(required, string) The date and time of the annotation. Must be in ISO 8601 format.

message

(optional, string) The message displayed in the annotation. Defaults to service.version.

tags

(optional, array) Tags are used by the APM UI to distinguish APM annotations from other annotations. Tags may have additional functionality in future releases. Defaults to [apm]. While you can add additional tags, you cannot remove the apm tag.

Example

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The following example creates an annotation for a service named opbeans-java.

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:5601/api/apm/services/opbeans-java/annotation \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'kbn-xsrf: true' \
-H 'Authorization: Basic YhUlubWZhM0FDbnlQeE6WRtaW49FQmSGZ4RUWXdX' \
-d '{
      "@timestamp": "2020-05-08T10:31:30.452Z",
      "service": {
        "version": "1.2"
      },
      "message": "Deployment 1.2"
    }'

Response body

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{
  "_index": "observability-annotations",
  "_id": "Lc9I93EBh6DbmkeV7nFX",
  "_version": 1,
  "_seq_no": 12,
  "_primary_term": 1,
  "found": true,
  "_source": {
    "message": "Deployment 1.2",
    "@timestamp": "2020-05-08T10:31:30.452Z",
    "service": {
      "version": "1.2",
      "name": "opbeans-java"
    },
    "tags": [
      "apm",
      "elastic.co",
      "customer"
    ],
    "annotation": {
      "type": "deployment"
    },
    "event": {
      "created": "2020-05-09T02:34:43.937Z"
    }
  }
}

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