Plugins extend the core functionality of Elasticsearch. There are many suitable plugins, including:

• Discovery plugins, such as the cloud AWS plugin that allows discovering nodes on EC2 instances.
• Analysis plugins, to provide analyzers targeted at languages other than English.
• Scripting plugins, to provide additional scripting languages.

Plugins can come from different sources: the official ones created or at least maintained by Elastic, community-sourced plugins from other users, and plugins that you provide. Some of the official plugins are always provided with our service, and can beenabled per deployment.

There are two ways to add plugins to a hosted deployment in Elastic Cloud:

• Enable one of the official plugins already available in Elastic Cloud.
• Upload a custom plugin and then enable it per deployment.

Custom plugins can include the official Elasticsearch plugins not provided with Elastic Cloud, any of the community-sourced plugins, orplugins that you write yourself. Uploading custom plugins is available only to Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise subscriptions. For more information, checkUpload custom plugins and bundles.

To learn more about the official and community-sourced plugins, refer toElasticsearch Plugins and Integrations.

For a detailed guide with examples of using the Elastic Cloud API to create, get information about, update, and delete extensions and plugins, checkManaging plugins and extensions through the API.

Plugins are not supported for Kibana. To learn more, checkRestrictions for Elasticsearch and Kibana plugins.