---
####
#### 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.
####
id: kibDiscoverPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/discover
title: "discover"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the discover plugin
date: 2025-06-26
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'discover']
---
import discoverObj from './discover.devdocs.json';

This plugin contains the Discover application and the saved search embeddable.

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

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 207 | 0 | 156 | 28 |

## Client

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

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

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

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

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

## Server

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

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

## Common

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

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

