# Grafana plugin reload witout server restart

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-plugin-reload-witout-server-restart/117989>\
**Category:** Signing & publishing\
**Tags:** api, plugins\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-plugin-reload-witout-server-restart/117989 "2024-03-27T08:52:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![artemp2403](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@artemp2403](https://community.grafana.com/u/artemp2403)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-plugin-reload-witout-server-restart/117989/1 "2024-03-27T08:52:22Z")

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Hello everyone. So I’m trying to setup a deployment flow for my custom plugins for Grafana, but the problem is every time I deliver my plugin to the “/plugins” folder, I have to restart my Grafana server in order for it to see it. So far the only relatable thing I have found is “POST /api/admin/provisioning/plugins/reload” endpoint mentioned in docs, but it doesnt seems to work for me.

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**Author:** ![leventebalogh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/leventebalogh/32/23539_2.png) [@leventebalogh](https://community.grafana.com/u/leventebalogh)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-plugin-reload-witout-server-restart/117989/2 "2024-03-27T14:23:56Z")

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Hey @artemp2403 👋

Just for clarification - you mean whenever you change the _backend_ part of your plugin, right? (In case you symlink / mount your plugins dist directory under the `/plugins` folder, then the frontend changes should be reflected on a browser refresh.)

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**Author:** ![artemp2403](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@artemp2403](https://community.grafana.com/u/artemp2403)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-plugin-reload-witout-server-restart/117989/3 "2024-03-27T15:18:53Z")

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Actually, no. I want to support some kind of versioning in my plugin system, so every time I deploy plugin, it creates new folder in `/plugins` folder. So my goal is to see a new panel plugin in Grafana, not to change the behaviour of old one.