Plugin Resources

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

Our IRC channel

100% of the Kibana development team hangs chats 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

• Our CONTRIBUTING.md can help you get a development environment going
• Tim Roes' excellent blog series from 12/2015 Writing Kibana 4 Plugins

Videos

• Contributors Guide to the Kibana Galaxy
• Kibana Plugin Dev - Elasticon 2016

Example code

• This simple Kibana Hack boilerplate will just throw an alert window [zip] [repo]. Hack plugins let you manipulate the browser UI code or add hooks to UI events.
• If you want to write a Kibana app, check out the plugin generator npm repo. With an app, you can create elaborate RESTful applications with server-side and client-side components.

References in the code

• Plugin options: what options does the kibana.Plugin class accept?
• UiExport Types
• TemplateVisType Boilerplate
• Using server.log