# Kibana APM annotations API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-annotations-api/  
**Provider:** Kibana — https://apis.io/providers/kibana/  
**Base URL:** https://localhost:5601/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html

Kibana APM annotations API is one of 60 APIs that [Kibana](https://apis.io/providers/kibana/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include APM annotations. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

Annotate visualizations in the APM app with significant events. Annotations enable you to easily see how events are impacting the performance of your applications.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kibana/refs/heads/main/openapi/kibana-apm-annotations-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html
- **Authentication** — https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api-authentication.html

## Other Kibana APIs (12)

- [Kibana Actions API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-actions-api/)
- [Kibana agent builder API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-agent-builder-api/)
- [Kibana alerting API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-alerting-api/)
- [Kibana APM agent configuration API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-agent-configuration-api/)
- [Kibana APM agent keys API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-agent-keys-api/)
- [Kibana APM server schema API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-server-schema-api/)
- [Kibana APM sourcemaps API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-sourcemaps-api/)
- [Kibana cases API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-cases-api/)
- [Kibana connectors API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-connectors-api/)
- [Kibana Data streams API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-data-streams-api/)
- [Kibana data views API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-data-views-api/)
- [Kibana Elastic Agent actions API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-elastic-agent-actions-api/)

## Tags

APM annotations

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-annotations-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/kibana/.