@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Once you really get rolling with Metabase, it's often the case that you'll have
To help you out in situations like this, Metabase has a serialization feature which lets you create an _export_ of the contents of a Metabase that can then be _imported_ into one or more Metabases.
> We're interested in how we can improve serialization to suit your workflow. [Upvote an existing issue](https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+serialization+label%3AOperation%2FSerialization) to let us know it's important to you. If a relevant issue doesn't yet exist, please create one and tell us what you need.
## Serialization use cases
-**Staging environments**. Enable a staging-to-production workflow for important dashboards by exporting from a staging instance of Metabase and then importing them into your production instance(s).