By default, automatic deployment annotations are enabled. This means the APM app will create an annotation on your data when the of your application changes.

Alternatively, you can explicitly create deployment annotations with our annotation API. The API can integrate into your CI/CD pipeline, so that each time you deploy, a POST request is sent to the annotation API endpoint:

See the reference for more information.

If custom annotations have been created for the selected time period, any derived annotations, i.e., those created automatically when changes, will not be shown.