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



Contact [Kibana Core](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-core) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 58 | 0 | 17 | 2 |

## Client

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

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

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={usageCollectionObj.client.functions}/>

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

## Server

### Setup
<DocDefinitionList data={[usageCollectionObj.server.setup]}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={usageCollectionObj.server.interfaces}/>

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