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id: kibFilesPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/files
title: "files"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the files plugin
date: 2025-04-19
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'files']
---
import filesObj from './files.devdocs.json';

File upload, download, sharing, and serving over HTTP implementation in Kibana.

Contact [@elastic/appex-sharedux](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/appex-sharedux) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 240 | 0 | 24 | 9 |

## Client

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

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

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

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

## Server

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

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

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={filesObj.server.functions}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={filesObj.server.interfaces}/>

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

## Common

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

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