---
id: kibIndexPatternEditorPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/indexPatternEditor
title: "indexPatternEditor"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
summary: API docs for the indexPatternEditor plugin
date: 2020-11-16
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'indexPatternEditor']
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 indexPatternEditorObj from './index_pattern_editor.json';

This plugin provides the ability to create index patterns via a modal flyout from any kibana app

Contact [App Services](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-app-services) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 13 | 1 | 8 | 0 |

## Client

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

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