# Content Pack Export Fails When an Included Object Has an Empty Description

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/content-pack-export-fails-when-an-included-object-has-an-empty-description/36638>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 21, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/content-pack-export-fails-when-an-included-object-has-an-empty-description/36638 "2025-11-21T13:31:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lugos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Lugos](https://community.graylog.org/u/Lugos)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/content-pack-export-fails-when-an-included-object-has-an-empty-description/36638/1 "2025-11-21T13:31:40Z")

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Hi everyone,

We’ve encountered what seems to be a bug in Graylog related to content pack creation.

When creating a content pack, if any of the selected components (e.g., streams, dashboards, pipelines, etc.) has a **description field that is empty** , the resulting content pack is generated but contains **no data**.  
In other words, the exported content pack is completely empty even though multiple items were selected.

After some testing, we confirmed that:

- The issue occurs as soon as at least one selected object has an empty description.

- Filling in the missing description (with any text) allows the content pack to export correctly.

- This behavior is consistent and reproducible.

It looks like Graylog fails silently instead of warning the user or skipping the problematic field.

**Environment details (optional if you want to add):**

- Graylog version: 6.3.5

- OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

- Deployment type (VM, containers, Kubernetes): VM

**Steps to reproduce:**

1. Select various items to include in a new content pack.

2. Ensure at least one of these items has an empty description.

3. Generate/export the content pack.

4. The resulting content pack is empty.

Could you confirm whether this is a known issue?

Thank you for reading,

The Lugos Team

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/content-pack-export-fails-when-an-included-object-has-an-empty-description/36638/2 "2025-12-05T13:32:14Z")

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