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title: Bulk updating collectors
slug: how-tos/TVsg-bulk-updating-collectors
createdAt: 2025-10-27T16:00:37.000Z
---

Historian supports bulk updating collectors, allowing you to quickly change the status of multiple collectors or update common settings.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/SMPo4IS9FkillUAMsur2c/i8XYQ_n_iLqhTihdyxMPY_image.png)

By selecting the checkbox next to the collector's name, it becomes part of the selection. Once you have at least one collector selected, a status bar will appear with the actions that can be performed. These include:

- Starting and pausing the collectors
- Changing common settings. This is especially useful when working with multiple collectors of the same type, as collector-specific settings can also be bulk updated using this method.

## Changing settings

You can change the settings of collectors in bulk by clicking the **Change Settings** button after selecting your desired collectors. The modal that opens will only show the settings that are available for all selected collectors:

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/SMPo4IS9FkillUAMsur2c/KTomYYEJl6W8hdI0Ono49_image.png)

If the selected collectors are the same type of collector, you will also see more collector-specific settings here to configure.

A setting only gets updated if its checkbox is selected. This makes it available for editing, allowing you to enter a new value that will be applied to all selected collectors:

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/SMPo4IS9FkillUAMsur2c/xWHqKXMyBZJQFgAmdnRNu_image.png)

If the selected collectors have no settings in common you will see the following message:

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/SMPo4IS9FkillUAMsur2c/kf86ssLHkzvOXOfER7a5i_image.png)

Clicking `Submit` will apply the settings to all selected collectors, causing them to restart.