# Sidecar automatic collector assignment

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/sidecar-automatic-collector-assignment/14007>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Tags:** sidecar\
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/sidecar-automatic-collector-assignment/14007 "2020-02-17T15:56:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jad.baz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jad.baz](https://community.graylog.org/u/jad.baz)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/sidecar-automatic-collector-assignment/14007/1 "2020-02-17T15:56:03Z")

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Hello,  
Is there a way to automatically assign configuration to a sidecar when it connects?

The idea is that we have way too many (thousands) beats instances to assign them one by one. We can do that via the API of course but that only seems to add complexity.

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**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:** [February 18, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/sidecar-automatic-collector-assignment/14007/2 "2020-02-18T10:59:18Z")

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he @jad.baz

such will be possible - we currently have one issue for that

> <https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/5062>
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> When having a fleet of sidecars it would be helpful to assign configuration based on information that are available.
> That could be...

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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:** [March 3, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/sidecar-automatic-collector-assignment/14007/3 "2020-03-03T10:59:24Z")

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