grafana-annotation-action

GitHub Action for Grafana annotations.

Creating an annotation and updating the end time after some actions.

jobs:
  example:
    name: example job
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Add Grafana annotation
        id: grafana
        uses: danieloneilldazn/grafana-annotation-action@v0
        with:
          grafanaHost: "https://grafana.example.com"
          grafanaToken: ${{ secrets.GRAFANA_TOKEN }}
          grafanaText: |
            This is an example of the text that
            will be present on the annotation
          grafanaTags: |
            type:performance
            service:sre-smart-scaling-api
      - name: Action that takes some time
        run: sleep 30
      - name: Update Grafana annotation
        uses: danieloneilldazn/grafana-annotation-action@v0
        with:
          grafanaHost: "https://grafana.example.com"
          grafanaToken: ${{ secrets.GRAFANA_TOKEN }}
          grafanaAnnotationID: ${{ steps.grafana.outputs.annotation-id }} # Output from previous usage of action

Parameters

• grafanaHost Required: The Grafana API host.
• grafanaToken Required: The Grafana API authentication token.
• grafanaText Required: The Grafana Annotation text.
• grafanaDashboardID Optional: Used to target a specific dashboard panel alongside grafanaPanelID.
• grafanaPanelID Optional: Used to target a specific panel alongside grafanaDashboardID.
• grafanaTags Optional: Newline separated tags that will be sent with annotation.
• grafanaAnnotationID Optional: If supplied, an exiting annotation will be updated with the end-time as current time.