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kibana-plugin-server

The Kibana Core APIs for server-side plugins.A plugin requires a kibana.json file at it's root directory that follows to define static plugin information required to load the plugin.A plugin's server/index file must contain a named import, plugin, that implements which returns an object that implements .The plugin integrates with the core system via lifecycle events: setup, start, and stop. In each lifecycle method, the plugin will receive the corresponding core services available (either or ) and any interfaces returned by dependency plugins' lifecycle method. Anything returned by the plugin's lifecycle method will be exposed to downstream dependencies when their corresponding lifecycle methods are invoked.