# Plug in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808 "2022-05-16T11:00:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![meyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@meyer1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/meyer1)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808/1 "2022-05-16T11:00:47Z")

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Hello everyone ! I need help, I would like someone to explain to me step by step how to install a plugin for sankey visualization

Thank you to the future person who will help me!

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808/2 "2022-05-18T16:33:23Z")

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You don't really need a custom plugin for this, a custom visualization using vega will allow you to do this: [Sankey Visualization with Vega in Kibana 6.2 | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/sankey-visualization-with-vega-in-kibana)

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**Author:** ![meyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@meyer1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/meyer1)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808/3 "2022-05-19T08:44:47Z")

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yes i know, but i want to make a multilevel sankey diagram and from what I understood it is very complicated to achieve it in customized visualization

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808/4 "2022-05-20T07:05:28Z")

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Creating a custom visualization plugin for Kibana is arguably even more complex. Here is documentation for plugin development in general: [External plugin development | Kibana Guide [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/external-plugin-development.html)

AS an example check out how the tagcloud visualization is implemented - sankey would be similar: [kibana/src/plugins/vis\_types/tagcloud at main · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/main/src/plugins/vis_types/tagcloud)

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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:** [June 17, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plug-in-kibana/304808/5 "2022-06-17T07:06:19Z")

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