# Exporting configuration from Graylog **URL:** \ **Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\ **Tags:** pipeline-rules\ **Created:** [April 16, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992 "2018-04-16T15:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Magneton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/magneton/32/1609_2.png) [@Magneton](https://community.graylog.org/u/Magneton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/1 "2018-04-16T15:53:00Z")
Dear All, I want to export an entire configuration from one Graylog system to another? I know that content packs could be used to export dashboards,inputs and streams. However, I have a large number of pipeline rules inn multiple stages attached to streams Is there a way to export pipeline rules and import them into a second Graylog server as well? Am I missing something? Cheers Jake ---
**Author:** ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/2 "2018-04-16T16:05:48Z")
currently the only solution is to export from the database - with the upcoming release this will be more easy. You would need to export parts or the complete database from one host to the other. ---
**Author:** ![Magneton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/magneton/32/1609_2.png) [@Magneton](https://community.graylog.org/u/Magneton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/3 "2018-04-17T13:37:35Z")
HI Jan, Can you point me towards some documentation regarding MongoDB tables needed or is it simply exporting and importing the whole database? Cheers Jake ---
**Author:** ![Magneton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/magneton/32/1609_2.png) [@Magneton](https://community.graylog.org/u/Magneton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/4 "2018-04-17T14:46:58Z")
Hi Jan, I am going to look at the table structures within MongoDB for exporting. I am assuming that you will need to use mongodump command to create a BSON formatted dump. Next, I will download a VM and try to re install config. Will let you know how it goes. Cheers Jake ---
**Author:** ![Magneton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/magneton/32/1609_2.png) [@Magneton](https://community.graylog.org/u/Magneton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/5 "2018-04-18T14:56:21Z")
Hi Jan, Here a screenshot of my current graylog mongodb collection ![graylog-mongod](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/2X/a/a022b8d4cfd5c0326e7d2d9abc4b8eea64678de3.PNG) Are there any parts of the collection that I should avoid? I want to export inputs,dashboards, streams, piepline rules and lookup table at a minimum. So is it better to just export those parts of the collection or just the whole lot? Cheers Jake ---
**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:** [May 2, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/exporting-configuration-from-graylog/4992/6 "2018-05-02T14:56:22Z")
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