---
####
#### 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: kibFileUploadPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/fileUpload
title: "fileUpload"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the fileUpload plugin
date: 2023-08-18
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'fileUpload']
---
import fileUploadObj from './file_upload.devdocs.json';

The file upload plugin contains components and services for uploading a file, analyzing its data, and then importing the data into an Elasticsearch index. Supported file types include CSV, TSV, newline-delimited JSON and GeoJSON.

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

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 62 | 0 | 62 | 2 |

## Client

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

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

## Common

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

