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id: kibDataPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/data
title: "data"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the data plugin
date: 2025-06-17
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'data']
---
import dataObj from './data.devdocs.json';

Data services are useful for searching and querying data from Elasticsearch. Helpful utilities include: a re-usable react query bar, KQL autocomplete, async search, Data Views (Index Patterns) and field formatters.

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

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 3260 | 31 | 2635 | 29 |

## Client

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

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

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

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

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.client.classes}/>

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

### Enums
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.client.enums}/>

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

## Server

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

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

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.server.objects}/>

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

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.server.classes}/>

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

### Enums
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.server.enums}/>

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

## Common

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

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.common.functions}/>

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.common.classes}/>

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

### Enums
<DocDefinitionList data={dataObj.common.enums}/>

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

