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Support for annotations across Kibana #36628

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@alexfrancoeur

We recently added the ability to add annotations to your machine learning data. It has been a longstanding request in Graph to add user annotations (#17914), we support viewing annotations in the Time Series Visual Builder and users are looking to edit / add fields in to a document in Discover (#36556). We have had many discussions around adding annotations in a consistent fashion across Kibana so that users can explain anomalies in their data and provide details around ongoing and old investigations / incidents.

As we think of all the areas annotations can be useful to the applications in Kibana, it probably makes sense to introduce as a commonly used service first. Then we can decide UI/UX flows, how to visualize in Elastic Charts and CRUD UI's.

While we don't have immediate plans to build out this feature and the requirements will likely evolve, we'd love to hear some details around how the community would utilize such a feature. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

cc: @AlonaNadler

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    Feature:AlertingFeature:VisualizationsGeneric visualization features (in case no more specific feature label is available)Team:ResponseOpsPlatform ResponseOps team (formerly the Cases and Alerting teams) t//Team:VisualizationsTeam label for Lens, elastic-charts, Graph, legacy editors (TSVB, Visualize, Timelion) t//discussenhancementNew value added to drive a business resultestimate:needs-researchEstimated as too large and requires research to break down into workable issuesimpact:mediumAddressing this issue will have a medium level of impact on the quality/strength of our product.🧊 iceboxed

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