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I want to know if it is possible to add a custom plugin for Kibana running on an AWS instance as mentioned in this link.

From the command line we can type,

bin/kibana-plugin install some-plugin

But, In case of AWS ElasticSearch Service, there is no command prompt/terminal as it is just a service and we don't get to SSH to it. We just have the management console. How to add a custom plugin for kibana in this scenario then?

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A.I
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  • Do you have access to the plugin directory? – doctorlove Feb 06 '17 at 12:30
  • @doctorlove I can't access the instance, as it just gives me a url and nothing else. Hence, unable to SSH to it. I maybe wrong. Just checking on that. I would've copied it to the folder if can access. – A.I Feb 06 '17 at 12:39

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From the AWS Elasticsearch Supported Plugins page:

Amazon ES comes prepackaged with several plugins that are available from the Elasticsearch community. Plugins are automatically deployed and managed for you.

The page referenced above has all the plugins supported on each ES version.

Side note, Kibana is installed and fully managed, but it runs as a Node.js application (not as a plugin).

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