---
id: kibSecurityOssPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/securityOssPluginApi
title: securityOss
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
summary: API docs for the securityOss plugin
date: 2020-11-16
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'securityOss']
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 securityOssObj from './security_oss.json';

This plugin exposes a limited set of security functionality to OSS plugins.

Contact [Platform Security](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-security) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 12 | 0 | 9 | 3 |

## Client

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

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

## Server

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

## Common

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