What happened:

When writing an annotation query, only the query builder is available to write those:

What you expected to happen:

MQL queries can be more helpful when writing queries for annotations since it allow more complex conditions.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Anything else we need to know?:

There is actually code to parse MQL responses as annotation queries but I believe it was never used (so it's likely not working atm):

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/pkg/tsdb/cloudmonitoring/time_series_query.go#L289

Environment:

• Grafana version: 9.2.3
• Data source type & version:
• OS Grafana is installed on:
• User OS & Browser:
• Grafana plugins:
• Others: