diff --git a/pkg/plugins/manager/loader/loader_test.go b/pkg/plugins/manager/loader/loader_test.go
index 9afc6fc748c..016ab44b944 100644
--- a/pkg/plugins/manager/loader/loader_test.go
+++ b/pkg/plugins/manager/loader/loader_test.go
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ func TestLoader_Load(t *testing.T) {
 						Metrics:      true,
 						Alerting:     true,
 						Logs:         true,
+						Backend:      true,
 						QueryOptions: map[string]bool{"minInterval": true},
 					},
 					Module:    "app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/module",
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/plugin.json
index 5a96830945c..fb7e2bd8f18 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/plugin.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   "metrics": true,
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
+  "backend": true,
   "includes": [
     {
       "type": "dashboard",
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/plugin.json
index daa8e532dd9..625ad3107c3 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/plugin.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   "logs": true,
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
+  "backend": true,
   "includes": [
     { "type": "dashboard", "name": "EC2", "path": "dashboards/ec2.json" },
     { "type": "dashboard", "name": "EBS", "path": "dashboards/EBS.json" },
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/plugin.json
index 5c1fa7020bb..5d1d43c4c84 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/plugin.json
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   "annotations": true,
   "metrics": true,
   "logs": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/plugin.json
index 2b50162d706..9b28b87f150 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/plugin.json
@@ -51,5 +51,6 @@
 
   "metrics": true,
   "annotations": true,
-  "alerting": true
+  "alerting": true,
+  "backend": true
 }
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/graphite/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/graphite/plugin.json
index 1d1ab828a5c..3d95f92cbd2 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/graphite/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/graphite/plugin.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   "metrics": true,
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "maxDataPoints": true,
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/plugin.json
index 0c335c62daa..d0084947ee6 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/plugin.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   "logs": true,
   "annotations": true,
   "alerting": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/plugin.json
index b91a3b8a785..222cfa24135 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/plugin.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
   "streaming": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "maxDataPoints": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/plugin.json
index 333bf20f049..2c34f139b1b 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/plugin.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
   "metrics": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/plugin.json
index 2918371cb48..48e1d39d735 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/plugin.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
   "metrics": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
index 12e9d1ecf23..a79384cf24b 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   "defaultMatchFormat": "pipe",
   "annotations": true,
   "alerting": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "info": {
     "description": "Open source time series database",
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/plugin.json
index 815356e61ea..48b437206ad 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/plugin.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
   "metrics": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/plugin.json
index 3de79425fed..1c5f8af6abe 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/plugin.json
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
   "metrics": true,
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
+  "backend": true,
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true
   },
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/tempo/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/tempo/plugin.json
index ab38a4a827f..629290de4a5 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/tempo/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/tempo/plugin.json
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   "logs": false,
   "streaming": false,
   "tracing": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "info": {
     "description": "High volume, minimal dependency trace storage.  OSS tracing solution from Grafana Labs.",
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/testdata/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/testdata/plugin.json
index e1972c7019c..fc2512ed2b9 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/testdata/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/testdata/plugin.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   "logs": true,
   "alerting": true,
   "annotations": true,
+  "backend": true,
 
   "queryOptions": {
     "minInterval": true,