Add support for annotations

This guide explains how to add support for annotations to an existing data source plugin.

This guide assumes that you’re already familiar with how to Build a data source plugin.

Note: Annotation support for React plugins was released in Grafana 7.2. To support earlier versions, refer to the .

1. Add "annotations": true to the plugin.json file to let Grafana know that your plugin supports annotations.

   plugin.json

   {
     "annotations": true
   }
   

2. In datasource.ts, override the annotations property from DataSourceApi. For the default behavior, you can set annotations to an empty object.

   datasource.ts

   annotations: {
   }