Events

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The Events section provides a centralized view of all annotations added to SLOs across your organization. It facilitates visibility into key events or changes that impact your system performance for better monitoring and tracking meaningful updates such as budget adjustments, alerts, or key milestones.

When an annotation is added to an SLO, it automatically appears in the Events > Annotations table.

Events section

The table displays all annotations available in the organization along with the total number of displayed annotations. Table columns provide annotation details.

Column header	Description
Applied from	The beginning of the annotated period
Applied to	The end of the annotated period
Created by	Annotation origin: system or user-created
SLO name	The name of the annotated SLO
Description	The annotation body
Created at	The time indicating when the annotation was added
Project	The name of the project holding the annotated SLO
Service	The name of the service holding the annotated SLO
Objective	The name of the annotated SLO objective

Not all columns are displayed by default; however, you can configure the table view.

The Events section provides the following options:

• Search annotations by keywords in annotation descriptions
• Filter annotations
• Shift the time window to display annotations with an annotated period falling within the selected time frame
• Preview annotations
• Export annotations to CSV
• Customize the table

Accessing Events

To access Events, select Events in the main navigation menu:

Accessing the event list

The table with annotations opens. By default, it displays annotations as follows:

• Sorted by the annotated period start date, in the descending order
• The Last month time window
  Annotations with the annotated period ending within the last month are displayed

To preview the annotation, click its row:

Annotation preview

To export filtered annotations and to show, hide, and reorder table columns, click next to the time picker. Then select the required option:

• Export to CSV to download a CSV file with filtered annotations. The CSV contains all available columns, including hidden, sorted in the current order.
  Up to 10k entries
• Customize columns to view all available columns and handle their visibility in the table.

  

  Customizing the table

Table customization

The following table customization options are available:

• Showing and hiding columns. For this, select the required columns in the list.
• Reordering the displayed columns—use the arrows to move the column up or down:

Reordering table columns

• Adding a custom column with annotation labels.
  For this, click + Add custom column, enter a header, and select the key.

Adding a custom column

As a result, your new column appears in the list of available columns. In addition to hiding this column and rearranging its position, you can delete it.

A custom column in the list of available columns

In the table, this column displays values of the label key you selected.

A custom column in the table

Custom column key points

• Prerequisite: SLOs in your organization must have annotations with the required labels.
• Functionality: Custom columns are populated with label values from annotations. The column will only display the values found in the annotations.
• Limitation: You can use only existing labels—it's not possible to create new labels while adding a custom column.
• Visibility: Custom columns are private and visible only to you.

Table filtering

To filter annotations, click Show filters under the section header:

Opening the filter controls

The filter controls open. Select the required filters to apply them to the table.

Filter	Description
Annotation type	The type of the annotation. System annotations: alert, budget adjustment, no data anomaly User annotations
Project	Filters by projects containing the annotated SLOs.
Service	Filters by services containing the annotated SLOs.
SLO	Filters by the specific SLOs that are annotated.
Labels	Filters by labels added to SLOs and SLO annotations.
User	Filters by the user who created the annotation.

Key points for annotation filtering:

• Next to each filter option, the total number of available annotations is displayed.
• Filters are interconnected. Selecting a filter dynamically adjusts the available choices in other categories.

Applying a filter narrows down the available filters in other categories.
Since the Alert annotation type is system-added, the Users list is empty. The number of annotations per project is also reduced

Useful links

For a more in-depth look, consult additional resources:

SLO annotationsNobl9 featuresBudget adjustmentsNobl9 featuresAlert detailsAlertingService level objectivesNobl9 resourcesSLO troubleshootingGuides & troubleshooting