Here's a quickie
HttpRpcPlugin you can build and install that accepts annotation post or puts with
metric and
tags instead of tsuid.
If the metric or any of the tags do not exist, they will be automatically created.
There's also an optional parameter includemetric where the annotation json in the response will include the metric name and tags from the request.
Could use a bit of work.... there's not much in the way of error handling.
//Nicholas