﻿---
title: Add data tutorials
description: Add Data in the Kibana Home application contains tutorials for setting up data flows in the Elastic stack. Each tutorial contains three sets of instructions:...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2532/extend/kibana/add-data-tutorials
products:
  - Kibana
---

# Add data tutorials
`Add Data` in the Kibana Home application contains tutorials for setting up data flows in the Elastic stack.
Each tutorial contains three sets of instructions:
- `On Premise.` Set up a data flow when both Kibana and Elasticsearch are running on premise.
- `On Premise Elastic Cloud.` Set up a data flow when Kibana is running on premise and Elasticsearch is running on Elastic Cloud.
- `Elastic Cloud.` Set up a data flow when both Kibana and Elasticsearch are running on Elastic Cloud.


## Creating a new tutorial

1. Create a new directory in the [tutorials directory](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/main/src/platform/plugins/shared/home/server/tutorials).
2. In the new directory, create a file called `index.ts` that exports a function. The function must return a function object that conforms to the `TutorialSchema` interface [tutorial schema](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/src/platform/plugins/shared/home/server/services/tutorials/lib/tutorial_schema.ts).
3. Register the tutorial in [register.ts](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/src/platform/plugins/shared/home/server/tutorials/register.ts) by adding it to the `builtInTutorials`.
4. Add image assets to the `tutorial_resources` directory.
5. Run Kibana locally to preview the tutorial.
6. Create a PR and go through the review process to get the changes approved.

If you are creating a new plugin and the tutorial is only related to that plugin, you can also place the `TutorialSchema` object into your plugin folder. Add `home` to the `requiredPlugins` list in your `kibana.json` file. Then register the tutorial object by calling `home.tutorials.registerTutorial(tutorialObject)` in the `setup` lifecycle of your server plugin.

### Variables

String values can contain variables that are substituted when rendered. Variables are specified by `{}`. For example: `{config.docs.version}` is rendered as `6.2` when running the tutorial in Kibana 6.2.
[Provided variables](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/src/platform/plugins/shared/home/public/application/components/tutorial/replace_template_strings.js)

### Markdown

String values can contain limited Markdown syntax.
[Enabled Markdown grammars](https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/editors-syntax/markdown-format)