---
id: kibServerAndCoreComponents
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/core-intro
title: Kibana Server and Core components
summary: An introduction to the Kibana server and core components.
date: 2021-02-26
tags: ['kibana','onboarding', 'dev', 'architecture']
---

Core is a set of systems (frontend, backend etc.) that Kibana and its plugins are built on top of.

### Logging
`core` has its own <DocLink id="kibCoreLogging" text="logging system"/> and will output log records directly (e.g. to file or terminal) when configured. When no specific configuration is provided, logs are forwarded to the "legacy" Kibana so that they look the same as the rest of the
log records throughout Kibana.

<DocBadgeComingSoon tipTitle="Other core components" tipContent="I will be content on the other components offered by core">Other components</DocBadgeComingSoon>