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

Adds Canvas application to Kibana

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

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 9 | 0 | 8 | 3 |

## Client

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

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

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

## Common

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={canvasObj.common.objects}/>

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