---
####
#### 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.
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id: kibDiscoverSharedPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/discoverShared
title: "discoverShared"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the discoverShared plugin
date: 2025-03-04
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'discoverShared']
---
import discoverSharedObj from './discover_shared.devdocs.json';

A stateful layer to register shared features and provide an access point to discover without a direct dependency

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 |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 26 | 0 | 23 | 2 |

## Client

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

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

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

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

## Common

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

