# Kibana 7.16 External Plugin creation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-16-external-plugin-creation/292733>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 22, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-16-external-plugin-creation/292733 "2021-12-22T18:08:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ssimmons](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssimmons)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-16-external-plugin-creation/292733/1 "2021-12-22T18:08:27Z")

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I'm trying to create an external plugin using Kibana 7.16. I've done this with 7.5 and 7.10. I'm hoping I can move our plugins over to 7.16. I ran the kibana `generate_plugin` script and created a plugin with a UI component. When I start Kibana, I can see the plugin listed at the bottom of the menu under the Management section. How can I select this plugin as a visualization like I can in the other version of Kibana? In Kibana 7.16, when I click on the Visualize Library link and then click the Create new visualization button, I do not see my newly created plugin as an option. I've added the following line to my kibana.json file, which is what I'm using in Kibana 7.10:  
`"requiredPlugins": ["visualizations","visDefaultEditor","data","kibanaReact"],`  
But this doesn't seem to allow my plugin to show up as a visualization option.

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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:** [January 19, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-16-external-plugin-creation/292733/2 "2022-01-19T18:08:37Z")

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