"When the Cloudflare outage hit, I thought, I should add an annotation about it so I can see if I see any weird data on that date. But I was unable to: The issue happened on November 18th, but told me "Date can't be after 2025-11-17." That being said, Daniel Waisberg from Google said on X "we're thinking about it," when asked about dates. Then, this morning, he posted an update asking us to try again and it works."
"Can't document this until I get data from Google Search Console for the 18th...[image or embed]- Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick.com) November 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM That's a great use! Let's hope it's just the morning.- John Mueller (@johnmu.com) November 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM"
"This is a nice addition, but how about more in the future - like for planned outages or site changes. :) Forum discussion at X and Bluesky."
Google Search Console added support for creating annotations on current and future dates. Previously annotations could not be created for dates beyond the available performance data and attempts returned an error stating the date could not be after the previous day. Google representatives acknowledged the limitation and pushed an update that allows users to add annotations for today or planned future dates. The capability enables marking events such as outages or planned site changes before chart data populates. The change helps correlate incoming performance data with known events once the data becomes available.
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