# Creating custom kibana plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 29, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699 "2016-07-29T06:56:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699/1 "2016-07-29T06:56:35Z")

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Hi !

I need to create custom Kibana plugin in Vidualization for ver 5.0.0 alpha 4.

In order to code , I would like to read if any tutorials exist.  
Is there a recommended tutorial that you could read to understand how things work for custom plugin?

Thanks,  
Yu Watanabe

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**Author:** ![simianhacker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simianhacker/32/3383_2.png) [@simianhacker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simianhacker)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699/2 "2016-07-29T15:13:01Z")

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The easiest way to get started with Kibana Plugin development would be to use our Yeoman generator located here: [https://github.com/elastic/generator-kibana-plugin](https://github.com/elastic/generator-kibana-plugin)

Also here are some good tutorials for Kibana 4 (most of it is still really valid for Kibana 5)

> **[Writing Kibana 4 Plugins – Basics](https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/02/writing-kibana-4-plugins-basics/)**
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> This tutorial series explains how to create own Kibana plugins. This first part
> explains the basics.

  

> **[Writing Kibana 4 Plugins – Visualizations using Data](https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/06/writing-kibana-4-plugins-visualizations-using-data/)**
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> This tutorial series explains how to create own Kibana plugins. This part explains
> how to create a simple tagcloud visualization.

  

> **[Writing Kibana Plugins – Custom applications](https://www.timroes.de/2016/02/21/writing-kibana-plugins-custom-applications/)**
>
> This tutorial series explains how to create own Kibana plugins. This part explains
> how to create a custom application plugin.

Also feel free to post new topic here (KIbana Discuss) or if you want to chat with Kibana developers in realtime they are often found in the #kibana IRC Channel on Freenode.

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699/3 "2016-08-01T01:43:38Z")

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@simianhacker

Thank you for the link I will read through it and get started with the development!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-custom-kibana-plugin/56699/4 "2017-07-06T13:43:03Z")

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