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What Are The Annotations?
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Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. When you
hover over an annotation you can get event description and event tags. The text
field can include links to other systems with more detail.

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In ApiMon Dashboards annotations are used to show the JIRA change issue types
which change the transition from SCHEDULED to IN EXECUTION. This helps to
identify if some JIRA change has negative impact on platform in real time. The
annotations contain several fields which help to correlate the platform behavior
with the respective change directly on the dashboard:

 - JIRA Change issue ID
 - Impacted Availability Zone
 - Affected Environment
 - Main component
 - Summary
