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title: Introduction to Grafana plugin development
menuTitle: Introduction to plugin development
keywords:
  - grafana
  - plugins
  - plugin
  - documentation
description: Conceptual topics for Grafana plugin development.
weight: 100
---

# Introduction to Grafana plugin development

This section contains documentation 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" >}})
- [Error handling]({{< relref "./error-handling.md" >}})