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

Data services are useful for searching and querying data from Elasticsearch. Helpful utilities include: a re-usable react query bar, KQL autocomplete, async search, Data Views (Index Patterns) and field formatters.

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 | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 668 | 5 | 526 | 5 |

## Client

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

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

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

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.client.classes}/>

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

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

## Server

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

### Start
<DocDefinitionList data={[dataViewsObj.server.start]}/>

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.server.functions}/>

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.server.classes}/>

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

## Common

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

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.common.functions}/>

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.common.classes}/>

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

### Enums
<DocDefinitionList data={dataViewsObj.common.enums}/>

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