# Pixie Plugin System API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pixie/pixie-plugin-api/  
**Provider:** Pixie — https://apis.io/providers/pixie/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/plugin-system/

Pixie Plugin System API is one of 5 APIs that [Pixie](https://apis.io/providers/pixie/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Grafana, Integration, Kubernetes, Observability, and Plugins. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and 1 JSON Schema.

Plugin API that allows configuring PxL scripts to export observability data from Pixie at regularly scheduled intervals to external systems. Supports integrations including a Grafana datasource plugin for visualizing Pixie data in Grafana dashboards.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/plugin-system/
- **Reference** — https://docs.px.dev/reference/plugins/grafana/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixie/refs/heads/main/json-schema/pixie-plugin-schema.json

## Other Pixie APIs (4)

- [Pixie PxL Script API](https://apis.io/apis/pixie/pixie-pxl-api/)
- [Pixie Clusters API](https://apis.io/apis/pixie/pixie-clusters-api/)
- [Pixie Health API](https://apis.io/apis/pixie/pixie-health-api/)
- [Pixie Scripts API](https://apis.io/apis/pixie/pixie-scripts-api/)

## Tags

Grafana, Integration, Kubernetes, Observability, Plugins

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