The new string metric type could be used to store small text info about events in production. Such as "Feature xyz was introduced", "New firewall activated"... etc, along with a timestamp.

That is a nice source for Grafana annotations[1], but could serve in our own charts as well.

[1] http://docs.grafana.org/reference/annotations/

2016-06-01 21:07 GMT+02:00 Stefan Negrea <snegrea@redhat.com>:

  1. String Metric Type - Enhancements

    • /strings endpoint was enhanced with querying capabilities similar to other metric types, including tag related features (HWKMETRICS-402)
    • The endpoints under /strings are still experimental, so changes which break backwards compatibility could be introduced in future releases. The experimental tag allows time for feedback to better determine what the API should be.