Dashboards in Mongodb

Graylog Central (peer support)
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Hello, I was wondering if dashboard data is saved in MongoDB? because checking the collections I don’t seem to find it :thinking:

→ show collections
access_tokens
alarmcallbackconfigurations
alarmcallbackhistory
alerts
cluster_config
cluster_events
collectors
content_packs
content_packs_installations
event_processor_state
grants
grok_patterns
index_failures
index_field_types
index_ranges
index_sets
inputs
lut_caches
lut_data_adapters
lut_tables
nodes
notifications
outputs
pipeline_processor_pipelines
pipeline_processor_pipelines_streams
pipeline_processor_rules
processing_status
roles
scheduler_triggers
searches
sessions
sidecar_collectors
sidecar_configuration_variables
sidecars
streamrules
streams
system_messages
traffic
users
views

2

Did you check the views collection?

3

thank you, it seems that data of dashboards indeed populated in views.

But why is it so? We have other GL instance that has dashboards collection :thinking:

If I use mongoexport on views collection is it safe to say that I have dashboards backup?

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:thinking: What’s the other instance’s version? If it’s anything prior to 4.X, those collections may have changed.

As for the Mongodump, I think you’d be safe that you’ve got backup.

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both running 4.0.5 :man_shrugging: anyway, I appreciate your help!