# Debug custom elasticsearch plugin in Intellij **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 28, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145 "2019-08-28T15:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/1 "2019-08-28T15:04:08Z")
I have gone through this [blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-debug-elasticsearch-source-code-in-intellij-idea) and I am able to debug elasticsearch code in Intellij. Can someone let me know how can I debug a custom plugin code in Intellij now? I have gone through this [post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-debug-a-plugin-in-an-ide/56893/2) and tried to run elasticsearch ```auto ./gradlew :plugins:/code/github/vnera/main/es-plugins/dedup/target/releases/dedup-0.001-SNAPSHOT.zip:run --debug-jvm ``` But it failed with the below error ```auto Project '/code/github/vnera/main/es-plugins/dedup/target/releases/dedup-0.001-SNAPSHOT.zip' not found in project ':plugins'. ``` I also tried doing ```auto ./gradlew :plugins:file:/code/github/vnera/main/es-plugins/dedup/target/releases/dedup-0.001-SNAPSHOT.zip:run --debug-jvm ``` But still it failed with the below error ```auto Project 'file' not found in project ':plugins'. ``` Can someone let me know how can I debug a custom elasticsearch plugin code in Intellij? For custom plugin I am using maven . ---
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/2 "2019-08-28T17:53:59Z")
By following the instruction mentioned in [TESTING.asciidoc](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/TESTING.asciidoc#debugging-remotely-from-an-ide) I am also able to connect to the remote elastic search from intellij. But I am still not able to figure out how can I step through my plugin code that is running inside the remote elasticsearch. Can someone suggest something? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/3 "2019-08-29T07:51:24Z")
if you are using gradle, you can start your plugin with `./gradlew run --debug-jvm`, before the java process starts, you need to attach intellij and then you can step debug through the code by triggering executions (be it an HTTP request, or a cluster state listener or a query). ---
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/4 "2019-08-29T08:16:27Z")
Yes it is working what you have suggested. Can you let me know how can I do `--debug-jvm` with custom plugin? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/5 "2019-08-29T09:24:40Z")
You can call the above gradle command within your own plugin, if you are using the build-tools dependency. See [https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect](https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect) for an example. ---
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/6 "2019-08-29T09:53:11Z")
My plugin is in a maven project. Will this work for maven project also? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/7 "2019-08-29T10:26:08Z")
No, those buildtools are for gradle only as far as I know. There is a community supported [elasticsearch maven plugin](https://github.com/alexcojocaru/elasticsearch-maven-plugin), but I have never used it and cannot comment on it further. ---
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/8 "2019-08-29T12:28:51Z")
Thanks @spinscale for your suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debug-custom-elasticsearch-plugin-in-intellij/197145/9 "2019-09-26T12:38:25Z")
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