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Plugin Resources

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Plugin Resources

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Here are some resources that will be helpful for getting started with plugin development

Our IRC channel

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Many Kibana developers hang out on irc.freenode.net in the #kibana channel. We want to help you with plugin development. Even more than that, we want your help in understanding your plugin goals so we can build a great plugin system for you! If you’ve never used IRC, welcome to the fun. You can get started with the Freenode Web Client.

Some light reading

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Our contributing guide can help you get a development environment going
Tim Roes' excellent blog series Writing Kibana Plugins

Videos

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Plugin Generator

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Check out the plugin generator to kick-start your plugin.

Directory structure for plugins

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The Kibana directory must be named kibana, and your plugin directory must be located within the sibling kibana-extra folder, for example:

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├── kibana
├── kibana-extra/foo-plugin
└── kibana-extra/bar-plugin

References in the code

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Plugin class: What options does the kibana.Plugin class accept?
UI Exports: What type of exports are available?

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