---
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#### This document is auto-generated and is meant to be viewed inside our experimental, new docs system.
#### Reach out in #docs-engineering for more info.
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id: kibCloudDefendPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/cloudDefend
title: "cloudDefend"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the cloudDefend plugin
date: 2025-03-11
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'cloudDefend']
---
import cloudDefendObj from './cloud_defend.devdocs.json';

Defend for containers (D4C)

Contact [@elastic/kibana-cloud-security-posture](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-cloud-security-posture) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 51 | 0 | 43 | 1 |

## Client

### Setup
<DocDefinitionList data={[cloudDefendObj.client.setup]}/>

### Start
<DocDefinitionList data={[cloudDefendObj.client.start]}/>

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.client.functions}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.client.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.client.misc}/>

## Server

### Setup
<DocDefinitionList data={[cloudDefendObj.server.setup]}/>

### Start
<DocDefinitionList data={[cloudDefendObj.server.start]}/>

## Common

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.common.objects}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.common.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={cloudDefendObj.common.misc}/>