Annotations support in MySQL datasource?

Grafana MySQL
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Based on the documentation in http://docs.grafana.org/reference/annotations/, I was under the assumption that neither MySQL nor PostgreSQL support annotation queries. That page has a list of backends supporting annotations, and MySQL is not on the list. Annotations are also not mentioned anywhere at http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/mysql/. However, when specifically looking for this feature, I found https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8382 and https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/73cb0352312fb35d26b03088eb7cba1b38e8d982. This sounds very much like annotations are supported with MySQL.

Before I start building a schema and filling a database with test data, it would be great to know what the actual situation is now – is that commit outdated by now, or is the documentation incomplete?

(I had to make some URLs above not links or it would not let me submit this post.)

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Slightly expanding the question, I am also wondering about the general status of the MySQL datasource. It is not listed as supported on http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/, but it is listed in the menu on the left and the MySQL datasource docs don’t say anything about it not being supported.

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The MySQL data source is just very new so we haven’t updated all the docs. Thanks for pointing this out (will fix).

It does have annotation support and there is a long help section in Grafana about how to use it:

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@rjung now I’ve updated the docs for MySQL and annotations: http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/mysql/#annotations

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Great, thanks a lot :slight_smile: