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id: kibControlsPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/controls
title: "controls"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the controls plugin
date: 2025-03-24
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'controls']
---
import controlsObj from './controls.devdocs.json';

The Controls Plugin contains embeddable components intended to create a simple query interface for end users, and a powerful editing suite that allows dashboard authors to build controls

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

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 142 | 0 | 138 | 15 |

## Client

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={controlsObj.client.objects}/>

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

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

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

## Server

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

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

## Common

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

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

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

