Annotation not showing at the correct time in time series visualization

[ab060787]

Hi,
I am having an issue showing my annotations extracted from an Infinity Datasource into my dashboard. I figure I am missing something, any help appreciated.

• What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
  Grafana v11.4.0 (b58701869e)

• What are you trying to achieve?
  I have an infinity data source that allows me to query the latest pipeline jobs from Gitlab, in the explore panel I am able to get job status.
  I am trying to show annotations in my dashboard based on that Infinity data source.

• How are you trying to achieve it?
  I have added the annotation in my dashboard settings and the test does show a result, the string date is even automatically converted to my timezone:
  

  
  
  Default field string time format: 2025-02-05T15:24:01.798Z
  

• What happened?
  Whatever the time range selected, the annotation shows in the bottom left corner of my graph, although when hovering it I can see the date seems correct and has the same format as when I hover on my graph:
  

  

• What did you expect to happen?
  I was expecting the annotation to show in my timeseries dashboard at the correct time.

• Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs?
  No

• Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
  Annotations | Grafana Plugins documentation

Thanks for your help!

[rnbhomesk]

Same issue here on v11.2

[jangaraj]

Time in the annotation must be in the UTC timezone. But dashboard shows data/annotations in different timezone. By default it’s a browser timezone.
So annotation with time 10:00:00 UTC, can be placed at 11:00:00 when browser is in the CET timezone.