In UI documentations its written

-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Dplugins.include=pinot-hdfs

the documentation does mention that but, the

-Dplugins.include=pinot-hdfs

flag will deactivate all other plugins. Just configuring

-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins

will autoscan all available plugins including hdfs

[akashmishra@pinot1.mlan apache-pinot-incubating-0.6.0-bin]$ bin/start-server.sh -zkAddress pinot1.mlan:2181,pinot2.mlan:2181,pinot3.mlan:2181 -configFileName /home/akashmishra/hpgraph/apache-pinot-incubating-0.6.0-bin/conf/server.conf -Dplugins.dir=/home/akashmishra/hpgraph/apache-pinot-incubating-0.6.0-bin/plugins
2021/04/13 14:53:14.235 ERROR [PinotAdministrator] [main] Error: "-Dplugins.dir=/home/akashmishra/hpgraph/apache-pinot-incubating-0.6.0-bin/plugins" is not a valid option

When i am adding it on config then i getting following error.

The JVM flags

-D

must passed passed through the

JAVA_OPTS

env variable