---
id: kibEventAnnotationPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/eventAnnotation
title: "eventAnnotation"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
summary: API docs for the eventAnnotation plugin
date: 2022-03-28
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'eventAnnotation']
warning: This document is auto-generated and is meant to be viewed inside our experimental, new docs system. Reach out in #docs-engineering for more info.
---
import eventAnnotationObj from './event_annotation.devdocs.json';

The Event Annotation service contains expressions for event annotations

Contact [Vis Editors](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-vis-editors) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 49 | 0 | 49 | 3 |

## Client

### Start
<DocDefinitionList data={[eventAnnotationObj.client.start]}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.client.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.client.misc}/>

## Common

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.common.objects}/>

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.common.functions}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.common.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={eventAnnotationObj.common.misc}/>

