Docs should be written during development and accompany PRs when relevant. There are multiple types of documentation, and different places to add each.

End user documentationedit

Documentation about user facing features should be written in asciidoc at https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/main/docs

To build the docs, you must clone the elastic/docs repo as a sibling of your Kibana repo. Follow the instructions in that project’s README for getting the docs tooling set up.

To build the docs:

node scripts/docs.js --open

REST APIsedit

REST APIs should be documented using the following recommended formats:

General developer documentation and guidelinesedit

General developer guildlines and documentation, like this right here, should be written in asciidoc at https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/main/docs/developer