diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fa7bc1e2176..b31b9079cbe 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -282,7 +282,8 @@
   },
   "workspaces": {
     "packages": [
-      "packages/*"
+      "packages/*",
+      "plugins-bundled/internal/*"
     ],
     "nohoist": [
       "**/@types/*",
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/package.json b/packages/grafana-toolkit/package.json
index e2bf38db11c..fc5adc9acb8 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/package.json
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/package.json
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
     "execa": "^1.0.0",
     "expect-puppeteer": "4.1.1",
     "file-loader": "^4.0.0",
+    "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin": "1.0.0",
     "fs-extra": "^8.1.0",
     "globby": "^10.0.1",
     "html-loader": "0.5.5",
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
index 4fe7fd3e463..9fc493f2a4d 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { githubPublishTask } from './tasks/plugin.utils';
 import { ciBuildPluginTask, ciBuildPluginDocsTask, ciPackagePluginTask, ciPluginReportTask } from './tasks/plugin.ci';
 import { buildPackageTask } from './tasks/package.build';
 import { pluginCreateTask } from './tasks/plugin.create';
+import { bundleManagedTask } from './tasks/plugin/bundle.managed';
 
 export const run = (includeInternalScripts = false) => {
   if (includeInternalScripts) {
@@ -195,6 +196,13 @@ export const run = (includeInternalScripts = false) => {
       });
     });
 
+  program
+    .command('plugin:bundle-managed')
+    .description('Builds managed plugins')
+    .action(async cmd => {
+      await execTask(bundleManagedTask)({});
+    });
+
   program
     .command('plugin:github-publish')
     .option('--dryrun', 'Do a dry run only', false)
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/manifest.test.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/manifest.test.ts
index 7e9d22c164e..5183f037041 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/manifest.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/manifest.test.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ describe('Manifest', () => {
         "manifest.ts",
         "nodeVersionChecker.ts",
         "package.build.ts",
+        "plugin/bundle.managed.ts",
         "plugin/bundle.ts",
         "plugin/create.ts",
         "plugin/tests.ts",
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin/bundle.managed.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin/bundle.managed.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8698e21fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin/bundle.managed.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { Task, TaskRunner } from '../task';
+import { restoreCwd } from '../../utils/cwd';
+import execa = require('execa');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const util = require('util');
+
+const readdirPromise = util.promisify(fs.readdir);
+
+interface BundeManagedOptions {}
+
+const MANAGED_PLUGINS_PATH = `${process.cwd()}/plugins-bundled`;
+const MANAGED_PLUGINS_SCOPES = ['internal', 'external'];
+
+const bundleManagedPluginsRunner: TaskRunner<BundeManagedOptions> = async () => {
+  await Promise.all(
+    MANAGED_PLUGINS_SCOPES.map(async scope => {
+      try {
+        const plugins = await readdirPromise(`${MANAGED_PLUGINS_PATH}/${scope}`);
+        if (plugins.length > 0) {
+          for (const plugin of plugins) {
+            process.chdir(`${MANAGED_PLUGINS_PATH}/${scope}/${plugin}`);
+            try {
+              await execa('yarn', ['dev']);
+              console.log(`[${scope}]: ${plugin} bundled`);
+            } catch (e) {
+              console.log(e.stdout);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.log(e);
+      }
+    })
+  );
+  restoreCwd();
+};
+
+export const bundleManagedTask = new Task<BundeManagedOptions>('Bundle managed plugins', bundleManagedPluginsRunner);
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/config/webpack.plugin.config.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/config/webpack.plugin.config.ts
index cb88145aa43..2aed1e8981f 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/config/webpack.plugin.config.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/config/webpack.plugin.config.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const TerserPlugin = require('terser-webpack-plugin');
 const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
 const OptimizeCssAssetsPlugin = require('optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin');
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+const ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin');
 
 const readdirPromise = util.promisify(fs.readdir);
 const accessPromise = util.promisify(fs.access);
@@ -123,6 +124,11 @@ const getCommonPlugins = (options: WebpackConfigurationOptions) => {
         ],
       },
     ]),
+    new ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin({
+      tsconfig: path.join(process.cwd(), 'tsconfig.json'),
+      // Only report problems in detected in plugin's code
+      reportFiles: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'],
+    }),
   ];
 };
 
@@ -205,7 +211,10 @@ const getBaseWebpackConfig: WebpackConfigurationGetter = async options => {
             },
             {
               loader: 'ts-loader',
-              options: { onlyCompileBundledFiles: true },
+              options: {
+                onlyCompileBundledFiles: true,
+                transpileOnly: true,
+              },
             },
           ],
           exclude: /(node_modules)/,
diff --git a/pkg/plugins/plugins.go b/pkg/plugins/plugins.go
index 30d2a64d4c1..78680dff11e 100644
--- a/pkg/plugins/plugins.go
+++ b/pkg/plugins/plugins.go
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ func (pm *PluginManager) Init() error {
 		return errutil.Wrapf(err, "Failed to scan main plugin directory '%s'", plugDir)
 	}
 
+	pm.log.Info("Checking Bundled Plugins")
+	plugDir = path.Join(setting.HomePath, "plugins-bundled")
+	if _, err := os.Stat(plugDir); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		if err := pm.scan(plugDir); err != nil {
+			return errutil.Wrapf(err, "failed to scan bundled plugin directory '%s'", plugDir)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// check if plugins dir exists
 	if _, err := os.Stat(setting.PluginsPath); os.IsNotExist(err) {
 		if err = os.MkdirAll(setting.PluginsPath, os.ModePerm); err != nil {
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/.gitignore b/plugins-bundled/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f6b56a2cb7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# packaged by toolkit
+dist
+coverage
+
+# Ignore external git configs
+external
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/README.md b/plugins-bundled/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11a5929e30e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Bundled Plugins
+===============
+
+Bundled plugins are built as true plugins, and managed by the grafana install.
+
+TODO: the packaging system should move all `dist` items to the root and remove sources.
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/LICENSE b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d6456956733
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
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diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/README.md b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/README.md
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/README.md
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/package.json b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7835a546ef0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{
+  "name": "@grafana-plugins/input-datasource",
+  "version": "6.6.0-pre",
+  "description": "Input Datasource",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "http://github.com/grafana/grafana.git"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "grafana-toolkit plugin:build",
+    "test": "grafana-toolkit plugin:test",
+    "dev": "grafana-toolkit plugin:dev",
+    "watch": "grafana-toolkit plugin:dev --watch"
+  },
+  "author": "Grafana Labs",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@grafana/data": "^6.6.0-pre",
+    "@grafana/ui": "^6.6.0-pre",
+    "@grafana/toolkit": "^6.6.0-pre"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputConfigEditor.tsx b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputConfigEditor.tsx
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputConfigEditor.tsx
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputConfigEditor.tsx
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.test.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.test.ts
similarity index 95%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.test.ts
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.test.ts
index 4fcde2a0eaf..23ff3a17b9a 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.test.ts
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   readCSV,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
-import { getQueryOptions } from 'test/helpers/getQueryOptions';
+import { getQueryOptions } from './testHelpers';
 
 describe('InputDatasource', () => {
   const data = readCSV('a,b,c\n1,2,3\n4,5,6');
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.ts
similarity index 98%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.ts
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.ts
index 5aadbcdd38b..b4b887de4cb 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputDatasource.ts
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputDatasource.ts
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ function getLength(data?: DataFrameDTO | DataFrame) {
   if (data.hasOwnProperty('length')) {
     return (data as DataFrame).length;
   }
-  return data.fields[0].values.length;
+  return data.fields[0].values!.length;
 }
 
 export function describeDataFrame(data: Array<DataFrameDTO | DataFrame>): string {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputQueryEditor.tsx b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputQueryEditor.tsx
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/InputQueryEditor.tsx
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/InputQueryEditor.tsx
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/img/input.svg b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/img/input.svg
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/img/input.svg
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/img/input.svg
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/module.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/module.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/module.ts
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/module.ts
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/plugin.json b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/plugin.json
similarity index 85%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/plugin.json
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/plugin.json
index dbfa0ad489a..05b5a647a8b 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/plugin.json
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
   "state": "alpha",
 
   "metrics": true,
-  "alerting": false,
-  "annotations": false,
-  "logs": false,
 
   "info": {
     "description": "Data source that supports manual table & CSV input",
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/testHelpers.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/testHelpers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..47b3308f60c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/testHelpers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { DataQueryRequest, DataQuery, CoreApp } from '@grafana/data';
+import { dateTime } from '@grafana/data';
+
+export function getQueryOptions<TQuery extends DataQuery>(
+  options: Partial<DataQueryRequest<TQuery>>
+): DataQueryRequest<TQuery> {
+  const raw = { from: 'now', to: 'now-1h' };
+  const range = { from: dateTime(), to: dateTime(), raw: raw };
+
+  const defaults: DataQueryRequest<TQuery> = {
+    requestId: 'TEST',
+    app: CoreApp.Dashboard,
+    range: range,
+    targets: [],
+    scopedVars: {},
+    timezone: 'browser',
+    panelId: 1,
+    dashboardId: 1,
+    interval: '60s',
+    intervalMs: 60000,
+    maxDataPoints: 500,
+    startTime: 0,
+  };
+
+  Object.assign(defaults, options);
+
+  return defaults;
+}
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/types.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/types.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/types.ts
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/types.ts
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/input/utils.ts b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/utils.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/input/utils.ts
rename to plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/src/utils.ts
diff --git a/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/tsconfig.json b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1a8b6a087a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-bundled/internal/input-datasource/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../packages/grafana-toolkit/src/config/tsconfig.plugin.json",
+  "include": ["src", "types"],
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "./src",
+    "baseUrl": "./src",
+    "typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types"]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/plugins/built_in_plugins.ts b/public/app/features/plugins/built_in_plugins.ts
index ec35b5cade1..78058438ebe 100644
--- a/public/app/features/plugins/built_in_plugins.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/plugins/built_in_plugins.ts
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ const mssqlPlugin = async () =>
   await import(/* webpackChunkName: "mssqlPlugin" */ 'app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module');
 const testDataDSPlugin = async () =>
   await import(/* webpackChunkName: "testDataDSPlugin" */ 'app/plugins/datasource/testdata/module');
-const inputDatasourcePlugin = async () =>
-  await import(/* webpackChunkName: "inputDatasourcePlugin" */ 'app/plugins/datasource/input/module');
 const stackdriverPlugin = async () =>
   await import(/* webpackChunkName: "stackdriverPlugin" */ 'app/plugins/datasource/stackdriver/module');
 const azureMonitorPlugin = async () =>
@@ -73,7 +71,6 @@ const builtInPlugins: any = {
   'app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module': mssqlPlugin,
   'app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/module': prometheusPlugin,
   'app/plugins/datasource/testdata/module': testDataDSPlugin,
-  'app/plugins/datasource/input/module': inputDatasourcePlugin,
   'app/plugins/datasource/stackdriver/module': stackdriverPlugin,
   'app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/module': azureMonitorPlugin,
 
diff --git a/public/app/features/plugins/plugin_loader.test.ts b/public/app/features/plugins/plugin_loader.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2d365233710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/plugins/plugin_loader.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+// Use the real plugin_loader (stubbed by default)
+jest.unmock('app/features/plugins/plugin_loader');
+
+(global as any).ace = {
+  define: jest.fn(),
+};
+
+jest.mock('app/core/core', () => {
+  return {
+    coreModule: {
+      directive: jest.fn(),
+    },
+  };
+});
+
+import { SystemJS } from '@grafana/runtime';
+import { AppPluginMeta, PluginMetaInfo, PluginType, AppPlugin } from '@grafana/data';
+
+// Loaded after the `unmock` abve
+import { importAppPlugin } from './plugin_loader';
+
+class MyCustomApp extends AppPlugin {
+  initWasCalled = false;
+  calledTwice = false;
+
+  init(meta: AppPluginMeta) {
+    this.initWasCalled = true;
+    this.calledTwice = this.meta === meta;
+  }
+}
+
+describe('Load App', () => {
+  const app = new MyCustomApp();
+  const modulePath = 'my/custom/plugin/module';
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    SystemJS.set(modulePath, SystemJS.newModule({ plugin: app }));
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    SystemJS.delete(modulePath);
+  });
+
+  it('should call init and set meta', async () => {
+    const meta: AppPluginMeta = {
+      id: 'test-app',
+      module: modulePath,
+      baseUrl: 'xxx',
+      info: {} as PluginMetaInfo,
+      type: PluginType.app,
+      name: 'test',
+    };
+
+    // Check that we mocked the import OK
+    const m = await SystemJS.import(modulePath);
+    expect(m.plugin).toBe(app);
+
+    const loaded = await importAppPlugin(meta);
+    expect(loaded).toBe(app);
+    expect(app.meta).toBe(meta);
+    expect(app.initWasCalled).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(app.calledTwice).toBeFalsy();
+
+    const again = await importAppPlugin(meta);
+    expect(again).toBe(app);
+    expect(app.calledTwice).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});