# How to Develop Custom Plugins

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-develop-custom-plugins/5356>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-develop-custom-plugins/5356 "2018-02-09T07:36:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![rajacharan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90ced4/32.png) [@rajacharan](https://community.grafana.com/u/rajacharan)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-develop-custom-plugins/5356/1 "2018-02-09T07:36:18Z")

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Hi Folks,  
Can any one please help me how to create custom Plugins, as i’m very new to grafana. Suggetions and guidance are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![daniellee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/daniellee/32/41_2.png) [@daniellee](https://community.grafana.com/u/daniellee)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-develop-custom-plugins/5356/2 "2018-02-14T14:31:46Z")

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Did you find the docs pages for developing plugins?

[http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/developing/development/](http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/developing/development/)

Otherwise a good tip is to find a plugin that is similar to the one you want to build and starting by copying that one. For data sources, some good starter plugins are:

- [https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource](https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource)
- If you want to write it in TypeScript: [https://github.com/grafana/typescript-template-datasource](https://github.com/grafana/typescript-template-datasource)