---
id: kibMetricsEntitiesPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/metricsEntities
title: "metricsEntities"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
summary: API docs for the metricsEntities plugin
date: 2020-11-16
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'metricsEntities']
warning: 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.
import metricsEntitiesObj from './metrics_entities.json';
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**Code health stats**
| Public API count | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
## Server
### Setup
<DocDefinitionList data={[metricsEntitiesObj.server.setup]}/>
### Start
<DocDefinitionList data={[metricsEntitiesObj.server.start]}/>
## Common
### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={metricsEntitiesObj.common.misc}/>