A latency spike tells you something is wrong. Seeing a pod restart or a container reschedule seconds earlier tells you why. Dashboard annotations put those events directly on your charts.
When editing a panel, click Add annotation, pick an event type, scope it to a service, and add filters. You can add multiple annotations per panel to layer different event scopes on the same chart. Click any marker on the timeline to see full event details.
Annotations work with events already flowing into Dash0. If you’re not collecting events yet, the Dash0 Kubernetes operator (v0.92.1+) gathers Kubernetes events automatically from monitored namespaces. For application-level events, any structured log record with an otel.event.name attribute is recognized as a log event and can be used as an annotation source.