grafana/docs/sources/developers/plugins/create-a-grafana-plugin/extend-a-plugin/_index.md

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An index of how-to topics for extending or enhancing Grafana plugins.	grafana plugins plugin development extension documentation	products enterprise oss	Extend a plugin	Extend a Grafana plugin	200

Extend a Grafana plugin

This section contains how-to topics for extending or enhancing Grafana plugins:

• [Enable annotations]({{< relref "./add-support-for-annotations.md" >}})
• [Add anonymous usage reporting]({{< relref "./add-anonymous-usage-reporting.md" >}})
• [Add authentication for a data source plugin]({{< relref "./add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins.md" >}})
• [Add distributed tracing for backend plugins]({{< relref "./add-distributed-tracing-for-backend-plugins.md" >}})
• [Add features to Explore queries]({{< relref "./add-support-for-explore-queries.md" >}})
• [Add query editor help]({{< relref "./add-query-editor-help.md" >}})
• [Add support for variables]({{< relref "./add-support-for-variables.md" >}})
• [Build a custom panel option editor]({{< relref "./custom-panel-option-editors.md" >}})
• [Use extensions to add links to app plugins]({{< relref "./extend-the-grafana-ui-with-links.md" >}})
• [Work with cross-plugin links]({{< relref "./cross-plugin-linking.md" >}})

Additional resources:

• Automate development with CI
• Create nested plugins
• Extend configurations