diff --git a/Makefile.toml b/Makefile.toml
index 7bbdac7b1335..403213cc0b0b 100644
--- a/Makefile.toml
+++ b/Makefile.toml
@@ -1070,3 +1070,14 @@ set -e
 
 cp -a .risingwave/rw-docker/* docker
 '''
+
+[tasks.generate-example-config]
+category = "misc"
+description = "Generate default config and write to src/config/example.toml"
+script = '''
+cat << EOF > src/config/example.toml
+# This file is generated by ./risedev generate-example-config
+# Check detailed comments in src/common/src/config.rs
+EOF
+cargo run --bin example-config >> src/config/example.toml
+'''
diff --git a/src/common/Cargo.toml b/src/common/Cargo.toml
index 19155a90145d..d56683ad464e 100644
--- a/src/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -115,3 +115,7 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "bench_hash_key_encoding"
 harness = false
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "example-config"
+path = "src/bin/default_config.rs"
diff --git a/src/common/src/bin/default_config.rs b/src/common/src/bin/default_config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..98f66854d2d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/src/bin/default_config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Copyright 2023 RisingWave Labs
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+use risingwave_common::config::RwConfig;
+
+fn main() {
+    let config = RwConfig::default();
+    let toml = toml::to_string(&config).unwrap();
+    print!("{}", &toml);
+}
diff --git a/src/config/example.toml b/src/config/example.toml
index b8e25ff93276..b6c20b15faa4 100644
--- a/src/config/example.toml
+++ b/src/config/example.toml
@@ -1,45 +1,87 @@
+# This file is generated by ./risedev generate-example-config
+# Check detailed comments in src/common/src/config.rs
 [server]
 heartbeat_interval_ms = 1000
 max_heartbeat_interval_secs = 600
 connection_pool_size = 16
+metrics_level = 0
+telemetry_enabled = true
 
 [meta]
+min_sst_retention_time_sec = 604800
+collect_gc_watermark_spin_interval_sec = 5
+periodic_compaction_interval_sec = 60
+vacuum_interval_sec = 30
+max_heartbeat_interval_secs = 300
+disable_recovery = false
+meta_leader_lease_secs = 10
+enable_compaction_deterministic = false
+enable_committed_sst_sanity_check = false
+node_num_monitor_interval_sec = 10
+backend = "Mem"
+periodic_space_reclaim_compaction_interval_sec = 3600
+periodic_ttl_reclaim_compaction_interval_sec = 1800
+max_compactor_task_multiplier = 2
 
-[batch]
+[batch.developer]
+batch_output_channel_size = 64
+batch_chunk_size = 1024
+stream_enable_executor_row_count = false
+stream_connector_message_buffer_size = 16
+unsafe_stream_extreme_cache_size = 1024
+stream_chunk_size = 1024
+stream_exchange_initial_permits = 8192
+stream_exchange_batched_permits = 1024
 
 [streaming]
-barrier_interval_ms = 1000
-in_flight_barrier_nums = 10
-checkpoint_frequency = 10
+in_flight_barrier_nums = 10000
+enable_jaeger_tracing = false
+async_stack_trace = "On"
+unique_user_stream_errors = 10
+
+[streaming.developer]
+batch_output_channel_size = 64
+batch_chunk_size = 1024
+stream_enable_executor_row_count = false
+stream_connector_message_buffer_size = 16
+unsafe_stream_extreme_cache_size = 1024
+stream_chunk_size = 1024
+stream_exchange_initial_permits = 8192
+stream_exchange_batched_permits = 1024
 
 [storage]
-shared_buffer_capacity_mb = 4096
-block_cache_capacity_mb = 4096
-meta_cache_capacity_mb = 1024
-compactor_memory_limit_mb = 5120
+share_buffers_sync_parallelism = 1
+share_buffer_compaction_worker_threads_number = 4
+shared_buffer_capacity_mb = 1024
+write_conflict_detection_enabled = true
+block_cache_capacity_mb = 512
+meta_cache_capacity_mb = 128
+disable_remote_compactor = false
+enable_local_spill = true
+local_object_store = "tempdisk"
+share_buffer_upload_concurrency = 8
+compactor_memory_limit_mb = 512
+sstable_id_remote_fetch_number = 10
+min_sst_size_for_streaming_upload = 33554432
+max_sub_compaction = 4
+max_concurrent_compaction_task_number = 16
 
 [storage.file_cache]
+dir = ""
 capacity_mb = 1024
 total_buffer_capacity_mb = 128
 cache_file_fallocate_unit_mb = 512
 cache_meta_fallocate_unit_mb = 16
 cache_file_max_write_size_mb = 4
 
-#The configurable parameters in [XXX.developer] subsection are for developers.
-#Users are not encouraged to tune or depend on the following parameters.
-#Some configurable parameters exist only temporarily.
-[batch.developer]
-batch_output_channel_size = 64
-batch_chunk_size = 1024
-
-[streaming.developer]
-stream_enable_executor_row_count = false
-stream_connector_message_buffer_size = 16
-unsafe_stream_extreme_cache_size = 1024
-stream_chunk_size = 1024
-
 [system]
+barrier_interval_ms = 1000
+checkpoint_frequency = 10
 sstable_size_mb = 256
-block_size_kb = 1024
+block_size_kb = 64
 bloom_false_positive = 0.001
-data_directory = "hummock_001"
\ No newline at end of file
+state_store = ""
+data_directory = "hummock_001"
+backup_storage_url = "memory"
+backup_storage_directory = "backup"
+telemetry_enabled = true