---
id: kibVisTypeTimelionPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/visTypeTimelionPluginApi
title: visTypeTimelion
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
summary: API docs for the visTypeTimelion plugin
date: 2020-11-16
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'visTypeTimelion']
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 visTypeTimelionObj from './vis_type_timelion.json';

Registers the timelion visualization. Also contains the backend for both timelion app and timelion visualization.

Contact [Vis Editors](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-vis-editors) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports | 
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |

## Client

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

