# Custom Elastic and kibana plugin support

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304 "2019-07-12T20:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![robrotheram](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robrotheram/32/27262_2.png) [@robrotheram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robrotheram)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304/1 "2019-07-12T20:36:16Z")

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Hello  
Just wondering on the status of adding custom kibana and elastic plugins are to a cluster in ece.  
There some documentation [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-custom-bundles.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-custom-bundles.html) but that looks like the cloud version not the On Premise version

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304/2 "2019-07-12T21:04:08Z")

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Custom Kibana plugins are not currently supported

Custom ES plugins and bundles work the same way a in the Cloud version, _except_ there is currently no upload API - you have to host them on a web server accessible from the allocator hosts and then specify them in the advanced JSON for the cluster or the deployment template - an example of how to do that is [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-securing-clusters-ldap-ad.html) (`user_bundles` and `user_plugins`, note has to be present for every element in the `cluster_topology` array)

Alex

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**Author:** ![zanbel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zanbel/32/20678_2.png) [@zanbel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zanbel)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304/3 "2019-07-15T11:52:09Z")

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One thing to add about Kibana is that a common workaround it to install a "self-managed" Kibana and connect it to a hosted Elasticsearch cluster. This is not ideal, but should provide a feasible solution until official Kibana plugin support is added.

Another option is to convert Kibana plugin to vega. This option highly depends on what type of plugin you are using, but if applicable has a lot of other benefits, mainly around version compatibility.

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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 29, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-elastic-and-kibana-plugin-support/190304/4 "2019-07-29T12:04:42Z")

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