# Kibana annotations without going through anomaly detection

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-annotations-without-going-through-anomaly-detection/190185>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-annotations-without-going-through-anomaly-detection/190185 "2019-07-12T09:18:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paulo64](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paulo64/32/48977_2.png) [@Paulo64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paulo64)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-annotations-without-going-through-anomaly-detection/190185/1 "2019-07-12T09:18:48Z")

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Hello,

I followed this tutorial regarding annotations in Kibana :

> **[Time Series, Annotations, and Anomalies with Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/blog/time-series-annotations-and-anomalies-with-kibana)**
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> Add annotations to your time series chart directly from the anomalies detected by a machine learning job.

It is a nice feature but I would like to give the user the ability to annotate a time series graph from the dashboard/vizualization.  
Is there a way to annotate a time series graph without going through the ML menu ?

If not, have you found workaround to write easily in an annotation index to serve as a data source to overlay both time series data and user annotations.

Thank you,

Paul

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-annotations-without-going-through-anomaly-detection/190185/2 "2019-07-18T11:24:34Z")

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There is no way really, other than just posting documents to the annotation index via the Console in Kibana. It does make a great enhancement request, so if you could post it in the Kibana repo, that would be great.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-annotations-without-going-through-anomaly-detection/190185/3 "2019-08-15T11:24:47Z")

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