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community.general.librato_annotation – create an annotation in librato

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.librato_annotation.

Synopsis

• Create an annotation event on the given annotation stream :name. If the annotation stream does not exist, it will be created automatically

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_key string / required	Librato account api key
description string	The description contains extra metadata about a particular annotation The description should contain specifics on the individual annotation e.g. Deployed 9b562b2 shipped new feature foo!
end_time integer	The unix timestamp indicating the time at which the event referenced by this annotation ended For events that have a duration, this is a useful way to annotate the duration of the event
links list / elements=dictionary	See examples
name string	The annotation stream name If the annotation stream does not exist, it will be created automatically
source string	A string which describes the originating source of an annotation when that annotation is tracked across multiple members of a population
start_time integer	The unix timestamp indicating the time at which the event referenced by this annotation started
title string / required	The title of an annotation is a string and may contain spaces The title should be a short, high-level summary of the annotation e.g. v45 Deployment
user string / required	Librato account username

Examples

- name: Create a simple annotation event with a source
  community.general.librato_annotation:
    user: [email protected]
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    title: App Config Change
    source: foo.bar
    description: This is a detailed description of the config change

- name: Create an annotation that includes a link
  community.general.librato_annotation:
    user: [email protected]
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    name: code.deploy
    title: app code deploy
    description: this is a detailed description of a deployment
    links:
      - rel: example
        href: http://www.example.com/deploy

- name: Create an annotation with a start_time and end_time
  community.general.librato_annotation:
    user: [email protected]
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    name: maintenance
    title: Maintenance window
    description: This is a detailed description of maintenance
    start_time: 1395940006
    end_time: 1395954406

Authors

• Seth Edwards (@Sedward)