ms.prod: devops ms.technology: devops-collab ms.topic: conceptual title: Create a service hook for Grafana description: Annotate Grafana dashboards upon completion of deployments in Azure Pipelines ms.assetid: d588f4a0-8081-4684-b87e-64d3140b8b1c ms.manager: shasb monikerRange: 'azure-devops' ms.author: shasb author: shashankbarsin ms.date: 03/24/2019
Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB. The service hook described in this document can be used to annotate Grafana dashboards upon completion of deployments in Azure Pipelines.
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Navigate to project settings:
https://dev.azure.com/{orgName}/{project_name}/_settings/serviceHooks
Select Create Subscription.
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Choose Grafana among the list of services and click on Next
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For Release deployment completed event, configure the optional filters - Release pipeline name, Stage name and Status
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Provide the Grafana URL and API token required for Azure DevOps to post annotations. If the Annotate deployment duration window checkbox is checked, the annotation added corresponds to the duration of the deployment (start and end timestamps of deployment). If unchecked, annotation corresponds to only the completion timestamp of the deployment. The dashboard input can be used to choose a specific dashboard as the target of annotations rather than the default behaviour of annotating all dashboards. Click on Test to verify that Azure DevOps is able to use the provided configuration and successfully create a subscription. Once verified, click on Finish to complete the creation of subscription.
