--- labels: products: - enterprise - oss title: Create Plugin --- Tooling for modern web development can be tricky to wrap your head around. While you certainly can write your own webpack configuration, for this guide, you'll be using grafana create-plugin tool Grafana [create-plugin tool](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@grafana/create-plugin) is a CLI application that simplifies Grafana plugin development, so that you can focus on code. The tool scaffolds a starter plugin and all the required configuration for you. 1. In the plugin directory, create a plugin from template using create-plugin. When prompted for the kind of plugin, select `datasource`: ``` npx @grafana/create-plugin@latest ``` 1. Change directory to your newly created plugin: ``` cd my-plugin ``` 1. Install the dependencies: ``` yarn install ``` 1. Build the plugin: ``` yarn dev ``` 1. Restart the Grafana server for Grafana to discover your plugin. 1. Open Grafana and go to **Connections** -> **Connect Data**. Make sure that your data source is there. By default, Grafana logs whenever it discovers a plugin: ``` INFO[01-01|12:00:00] Plugin registered logger=plugin.loader pluginID=my-plugin ```