influxdb/grafana annotation test

anno.py

#!/usr/bin/python
 
from influxdb import InfluxDBClient
import datetime

def annotate():
 
    _host = 'localhost'
    _port = 8086
    _user = "root" 
    _pass = "root"
    _dbname = 'telegraf' 

    annotation_body = [
        {
            "measurement": "events",
            "tags": {
                "type": "start",
                "text": "This is the start"
            },
            "time": datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat(),
            "fields": {
                "value": 1
            }
        }
    ]

    client = InfluxDBClient(_host, _port, _user, _pass, _dbname)
 
    try:
        client.create_database(_dbname)
    except:
        pass
 
    client.switch_database(_dbname)
    client.switch_user(_user, _pass)
    client.write_points(annotation_body) 
    print annotation_body 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    annotate()