Tutorials

Hands-on, task-focused guides for working with the Kibana platform from inside a plugin. If you're new to Kibana development, start with Getting started instead.

• Access the Elasticsearch client — obtain the Elasticsearch client in plugin lifecycle hooks and route handlers
• Search saved objects — use the powerful search method on SavedObjectsClientContract
• Data views API — create, query, and manage data views programmatically
• data.search services — run search requests with async search, sessions, and custom strategies

• Register and access an endpoint — add a custom HTTP API, call it from client-side code, or invoke Kibana APIs from a route handler via the HTTP self client
• Versioning HTTP APIs — create or migrate to versioned HTTP APIs
• Versioning interfaces — manage request and response schema versions over time
• Generate OAS documentation — generate OpenAPI Specification docs for your HTTP APIs

• Register an application — register a top-level application in Kibana
• Kibana Page Template — page layout, empty content, and no-data states
• Expressions service — build and execute expression pipelines
• Lens Config Builder API — embed Lens visualizations using the config builder API
• Add data tutorials — register data ingestion tutorials in the Kibana home screen

• Configure your plugin — define a config schema and read values at runtime
• UI settings — register and read Advanced Settings (uiSettings)

• Logging — structured logging from the server
• Reporting integration — integrate your plugin with the Reporting plugin
• Files — store and download blobs through the files plugin
• Screenshotting service — generate screenshots programmatically
• Development telemetry — register telemetry events for usage analytics
• Internationalization (i18n) — add translatable strings and use the i18n tooling

• Overview — differences when developing plugins outside the Kibana repository
• Plugin tooling — build and package tooling for external plugins
• Functional tests — run FTR tests for plugins outside the repo
• Testing plugins — set up tests for a Kibana plugin