circonus_annotation – create an annotation in circonus

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • Create an annotation event with a given category, title and description. Optionally start, end or durations can be provided

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • requests (either >= 2.0.0 for Python 3, or >= 1.0.0 for Python 2)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
- / required
Circonus API key
category
- / required
Annotation Category
description
- / required
Description of annotation
duration
-
Default:
0
Duration in seconds of annotation
start
-
Default:
"I(now)"
Unix timestamp of event start
stop
-
Default:
"I(now) + I(duration)"
Unix timestamp of event end
title
- / required
Title of annotation

Notes

Note

  • Check mode isn’t supported.

Examples

# Create a simple annotation event with a source, defaults to start and end time of now
- circonus_annotation:
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    title: App Config Change
    description: This is a detailed description of the config change
    category: This category groups like annotations
# Create an annotation with a duration of 5 minutes and a default start time of now
- circonus_annotation:
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    title: App Config Change
    description: This is a detailed description of the config change
    category: This category groups like annotations
    duration: 300
# Create an annotation with a start_time and end_time
- circonus_annotation:
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    title: App Config Change
    description: This is a detailed description of the config change
    category: This category groups like annotations
    start_time: 1395940006
    end_time: 1395954407

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
annotation
complex
 success
details about the created annotation
  _cid
string
 success
annotation identifier

Sample:
/annotation/100000
  _created
integer
 success
creation timestamp

Sample:
1502236928
  _last_modified
integer
 success
last modification timestamp

Sample:
1502236928
  _last_modified_by
string
 success
last modified by

Sample:
/user/1000
  category
string
 success
category of the created annotation

Sample:
alerts
  description
string
 success
description of the created annotation

Sample:
Host is down.
  rel_metrics
list
 success
Array of metrics related to this annotation, each metrics is a string.

Sample:
['54321_kbps']
  start
integer
 success
timestamp, since annotation applies

Sample:
Host is down.
  stop
string
 success
timestamp, since annotation ends

Sample:
Host is down.
  title
string
 success
title of the created annotation

Sample:
WARNING


Status

Authors

  • Nick Harring (@NickatEpic)

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