# Kibana plugin tutorial

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-tutorial/127825>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-tutorial/127825 "2018-04-12T13:14:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdlarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jdlarg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jdlarg)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-tutorial/127825/1 "2018-04-12T13:14:07Z")

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I'm brand new to kibana and elasticsearch, so if I'm missing something obvious, I apologize in advance.

I am looking at the tutorial for creating a new visualization and plugin based on this tutorial:

> **[Creating new Kibana visualizations and embedding them into your own plugin](https://www.elastic.co/blog/developing-new-kibana-visualizations)**
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> Creating custom Kibana visualizations got much easier as well as embedding them in your own plugins.

I think I followed the steps, but when I restart kibana, I get the message in the log "Skipping non-plugin directory at /usr/share/kibana/plugins/test\_vis " and the same for test\_visualize\_app. I'm using version 6.1.2

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-tutorial/127825/2 "2018-04-13T15:04:26Z")

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hi @jdlarg,

that blog post may be out of date, although I didn't double check this.

The current documentation is kept up to date here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-visualize-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-visualize-index.html)

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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:** [May 11, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-tutorial/127825/3 "2018-05-11T15:05:00Z")

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