# Annotations section **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\ **Created:** [April 23, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/annotations-section/358041 "2024-04-23T15:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zi\_ninja](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zi_ninja/32/133702_2.png) [@zi\_ninja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zi_ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/annotations-section/358041/1 "2024-04-23T15:15:04Z")
In the single metric viewer, I see a lot of annotations, marked 1,2,3,... (1 as the red arrow points to). What this means. I see that the birth of 1,2,3,... does not follow a rule, am I misunderstanding the problem here? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/6/96424c00b846f5200b5ec62eb50285c3735ff1b0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/annotations-section/358041/2 "2024-04-23T16:19:17Z")
There are system annotations and user annotations. Looks like the one you're showing is a [user annotation](https://www.elastic.co/blog/augmenting-results-with-user-annotations-for-elastic-machine-learning). ---
**Author:** ![zi\_ninja](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zi_ninja/32/133702_2.png) [@zi\_ninja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zi_ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/annotations-section/358041/3 "2024-04-23T16:29:33Z")
Oh, it seems like it's just a user-created caption to take notes. That's what I was thinking, and now it doesn't show abnormal content from the ML results.