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-Kibana Plugins
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-PLEASE DON'T WRITE CUSTOM PLUGINS
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-While Kibana has a directory called plugins, and a way to load plugin-provided modules, the API and underlying mechanisms are purposefully undocumented, and are very likely to change.
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-Issues filed to aid in the development of plugins will be closed with a link to this file.
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