# Kibana Plugins with Static Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770 "2016-06-14T18:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![imithya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@imithya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imithya)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770/1 "2016-06-14T18:12:09Z")

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How can we use Kibana Plugins such as Timelion, Shield, etc with ElasticSearch with static Kibana. The Kibana we have deployed is without the bundled server - see [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1628](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1628). This version does not have the directory installedPlugins (where kibana stores installed plugins) or the kibana binary (used to install the plugin) in the deployed Service.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770/2 "2016-06-14T22:00:20Z")

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This is still not a supported deployment model, so I suspect you, wherever possible, may need to modify these plugins in order to be able to install them in your environment.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770/3 "2016-06-14T22:43:41Z")

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There's a lot of things that plugins do on the server layer to bootstrap themselves. If you're trying to run them without the server component, you're going to have a lot of work ahead of you to recreate all that logic.

Also a general warning, Kibana is going to be leaning more and more on the server layer to operate going forward. Running in "static mode" is going to be an uphill battle.

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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 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugins-with-static-kibana/52770/4 "2017-07-06T13:50:33Z")

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