grafannotate 0.0.9

Send annotations to Grafana

grafannotate

A CLI tool to send Grafana annotations to various destinations.

Installation

pip install grafannotate

Usage

grafannotate --help
Usage: grafannotate [OPTIONS]

  Send Grafana annotations

Options:
  -u, --uri TEXT          URI to send annotation to. Default:
                          "http://localhost:3000/api/annotations".
  -T, --title TEXT        Event title. Default: "event".
  -t, --tag TEXT          Event tags (can be used multiple times).
  -d, --description TEXT  Event description body. Optional.
  -s, --start INTEGER     Start timestamp (unix secs). Default: current
                          timestamp.
  -e, --end INTEGER       End timestamp (unix secs). Optional.
  --help                  Show this message and exit.

Examples

1. Send an annotation to Grafana API for current time

grafannotate --uri http://user:password@grafana:3000/api/annotations --tag my_tag --title "Event Title"

2. Send an annotation to Grafana API for a time region

grafannotate --uri http://user:password@grafana:3000/api/annotations --tag my_tag --title "Event Title" --start 1557222057 --end 1557222259

3. Send an annotation to Grafana API with an extended description

grafannotate --uri http://user:password@grafana:3000/api/annotations --tag my_tag --title "Event Title" --description "Some longer description<br />with newlines<br />and <a href=\"https://something.com/\">links</a>"

4. Pipe output to an annotation description

START_TIME=`date +%s`
git log -1 | grafannotate --uri http://user:password@grafana:3000/api/annotations --tag my_tag --title "Event Title" --start $START_TIME --end `date +%s`