[Meta][Lens] Event Annotations

[ryankeairns]

Event annotations serve as a data visualization annotation about specific events. This helps the user gain insight by overlaying key metrics and performance data with these events to understand correlations.

Capabilities

Manually created event annotations / static event annotations

• I need to author an annotation just for my visualization
• I need to author an annotation as a named grouping of annotations that can be added to another visualization
  • I need to visualize groupings of annotations from others in my organization (i.e. Kevin's Release Schedule dates)
• I need to be able to link manual annotations to other relevant resources

Query-based event annotations

• I need to visualize annotations from a query
• I need to convert a query-based annotation into a "custom query" rule in an alert
  • I need to be able to link query-based annotations to other relevant resources
  • I need to visualize "curated" annotations that come from elsewhere in Elastic
    APM Deployments, ML Annotations, ML Anomalies, Security Detections, Existing Alert Rules, ...
• I need to be able to configure possible actions on these annotations depending on their type (e.g. muting alerts)

Ideas

• Discover annotations integration
• Non-time data as the annotation “Key”
• Annotations in other types (tables? partition types?)
• [Lens] hide all annotations at layer level #130580
• View all alerts option for alerts annotation source
• [Lens] collapsable layer panels #130723
• Create issue: custom tooltip header for annotations My value is {value} (TSVB supports today) - may depend on Provide a way to pass a value to the tooltip header elastic-charts#296
• using interactive tooltip [Lens] new design for tooltip for annotations #179883

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Event Annotations Phase 1 #169971
   Meta Team:Visualizations enhancement impact:high +4
2. Event Annotations Phase 2 (GA) #169972
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   Feature:Lens Meta Team:Visualizations enhancement impact:medium +5

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-vis-editors @elastic/kibana-vis-editors-external (Team:VisEditors)

[inqueue]

Looking forward to this one. It is a blocker for converting TSVB visualizations on https://elasticsearch-benchmarks.elastic.co/ to Lens.