Hey Carolyn, as far as I know there is no such thing as graph annotations directly in graphite. We use drawasinfinite() a lot to mark events in our infrastructure (see also http://obfuscurity.com/2012/04/Unhelpful-Graphite-Tip-1), it's not as good as a real log but can give some log like insights.
Cheers, Daniel On Dec 20, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Carolyn Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > New question #217295 on Graphite: > https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/217295 > > We are trying to move to Graphite for monitoring our system performance. > We'd like to have an event graph where the data points have viewable > comments. Circonus offers this sort of thing. They have a timeline that > runs separately from the dataline. It allows for entries that have a title > section (so you can give a brief description of the event), a category > (planned/unplanned/anomoly), a start and stop time and a section for details. > You can hover over the datapoint and see what happened. > It makes for a nice way to track network/server/system events to data > changes. > Is there a way to do the same in graphite - short of making a graph for every > scenario? I saw one answer that suggested it for events like full moons, but > I'm talking about unplanned events that impact performance and it would be > nice to have them displayed together. > Anyone have a suggestion? > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a member of > graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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