# Kibana plugin development

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479 "2019-01-09T08:46:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_Della_Fornac)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/1 "2019-01-09T08:46:54Z")

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Hi all,  
I've the kibana development environment installed on my machine and I can create a boilerplate of plugin via the plugin-generator-tool.  
After completed the generation of my new plugin, I can't see anything, can anyone please help me?

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**Author:** ![undwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@undwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/undwood)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/2 "2019-01-09T15:30:03Z")

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Hello. Did you run `yarn start`? It will run kibana with installed your plugin. But before, you need to start elasticsearch from development environment `yarn es snapshot -E path.data=../data/`

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_Della_Fornac)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/3 "2019-01-09T15:47:47Z")

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Yes I do, also yarn kbn startup and all the steps on the docs. Where I'm supposed to see the plugin?

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**Author:** ![undwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@undwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/undwood)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/4 "2019-01-09T16:22:31Z")

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If kibana will start without any errors, then open kibana at provided url ([http://localhost:5601/XXX/](http://localhost:5601/XXX/)) XXX - random generated 3 chars. On the left sidebar you will see new "button" with first letter of you plugin name. Click on this, and you open your plugin.

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_Della_Fornac)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/5 "2019-01-09T16:45:55Z")

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I only see "default"

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**Author:** ![undwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@undwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/undwood)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/6 "2019-01-10T06:55:34Z")

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Can you please attach a piece of screen with this sidebar?

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_Della_Fornac)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/7 "2019-01-11T11:16:55Z")

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runned:

> nvm use  
> yarn es snapshot  
> yarn kbn bootstrap  
> yarn start

this is my sidebar.

 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/e/9e0259ab959d01ab1cc6f736bc4549ddda9c594e.png)

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Roberto\_Della\_Fornac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roberto_Della_Fornac)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/8 "2019-01-11T11:17:53Z")

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my plugin name have a "\_" char, is this a problem?

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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:** [February 8, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development/163479/9 "2019-02-08T11:17:59Z")

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