# How to hide annotations

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Created:** [March 19, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769 "2021-03-19T10:42:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![majkinetor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/majkinetor/32/15503_2.png) [@majkinetor](https://community.grafana.com/u/majkinetor)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769/1 "2021-03-19T10:42:06Z")

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I have this

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/e/e096a63a2e0df327293da614db161138fe23052e.png)

And I need those alerts/annotations but I want to hide them when looking at the data or even always by default.

So far, I found that when I use edit annotation they disappear:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/1/107bd0d971041c4318de58af282480d7bf2ef427.png)

Is this possible ?

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**Author:** ![melrose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/melrose/32/14147_2.png) [@melrose](https://community.grafana.com/u/melrose)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769/2 "2021-03-19T23:02:55Z")

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hello and welcome to the forums, this is unfortunatly not possible. i am asking for long long time but i dont know why such basic thing are not implemented, over and over again ☹

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**Author:** ![castillo92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@castillo92](https://community.grafana.com/u/castillo92)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769/3 "2021-03-22T06:37:45Z")

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Yes, I ask for it a thousand of times…

This is a related thread about the same:

> [@Disable annotations](https://community.grafana.com/t/disable-annotations/29569/6):
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> Hello wave I just figured this issue has already been reported on GitHub. You can take a look at it [here](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/25580). I would recommend you follow up with this and hopefully, it gets resolved soon. Thanks!

And this is a GitHub issue, thumbs up please to tell devs to focus on it

> <https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/25580>
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> I want disable annoying "Add annotation" popup
> !\[image\](https://user-images.git…hubusercontent.com/38906004/84596730-1297ee00-ae68-11ea-8c35-4ab10f6b77f0.png)
> 
> \*\*Steps to reproduce\*\*:
> click to chart
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> \*\*Actual Result\*\*:
> annoying popup
> 
> \*\*Expected Result\*\*
> if annotations disabled, popup not showing
> 
> \*\*Environment\*\*:
> \- Grafana version: 7.0.3

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/e/ef5308cc58c9e5a13187b5012eb99f406928462f.png) [@system](https://community.grafana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-hide-annotations/44769/4 "2022-03-19T10:42:18Z")

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