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description: Conceptual topics for plugin development
title: Introduction to plugin development
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# Introduction to Grafana plugin development

This section contains topics related to the key concepts for Grafana plugin development.

- [Backend plugins]({{< relref "../backend/" >}})
  - [Grafana plugin SDK for Go]({{< relref "../backend/grafana-plugin-sdk-for-go.md" >}})
  - [Plugin protocol]({{< relref "../backend/plugin-protocol.md" >}})
- [Data frames]({{< relref "data-frames.md">}})