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

The file upload plugin contains components and services for uploading a file, analyzing its data, and then importing the data into an Elasticsearch index. Supported file types include CSV, TSV, newline-delimited JSON and GeoJSON.

Contact [Machine Learning UI](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/ml-ui) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 129 | 4 | 129 | 1 |

## Client

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

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

## Common

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={fileUploadObj.common.interfaces}/>

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