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What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
version 8.4.3 on Windows10 -
What are you trying to achieve?
add user data when creating annotation via its API -
How are you trying to achieve it?
by adding “login”, “email” and “userId” in the ‘body’ of the POST message along with all other standard key/value pairs. This is all being tested with Postman for now. -
What happened?
I get a succesful response, but when queyring the API with a GET command or by checking it in a grafana panel with “annotations”-visualization, I still don’t see the username next to the newly added annotation. -
What did you expect to happen?
To get the username, useremail or userlogin next to the annotation just like when you’re adding one manually by clicking on the graph which automatically somehow “records” the userdata along with it. -
Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
(userinfo below has been replaced by dummy values. Also, all other headers like host and so on are added automatically by Postman)
POST /api/annotations HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer Token
{
"dashboardUID":"jcIIG-07z",
"panelId":4,
"time":1656420056000,
"timeEnd":1656420056000,
"tags":["test1","tag2"],
"text":"Annotation Description",
"userId": 0,
"login": "admin",
"email": "admin@myserver.com"
}
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Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
No -
Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
Annotations HTTP API | Grafana documentation
This is so that I can have more insight into who is adding annotations through the API. (let’s just assume in this scenario that I’ll always be able to provide some user info 
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For now, my hack was to add the username as a tag, but I’d rather not use tags as it’s not intended for that purpose.