diff --git a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
index 713ff60a6..31fde7260 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import debug from 'debug';
 
 import AppDispatcher from '../dispatcher/app-dispatcher';
 import ActionTypes from '../constants/action-types';
+import { saveGraph } from '../utils/file-utils';
 import { updateRoute } from '../utils/router-utils';
 import { doControlRequest, getNodesDelta, getNodeDetails,
   getTopologies, deletePipe } from '../utils/web-api-utils';
@@ -57,6 +58,10 @@ export function clickCloseTerminal(pipeId, closePipe) {
   updateRoute();
 }
 
+export function clickDownloadGraph() {
+  saveGraph();
+}
+
 export function clickForceRelayout() {
   AppDispatcher.dispatch({
     type: ActionTypes.CLICK_FORCE_RELAYOUT
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/charts/nodes-chart.js b/client/app/scripts/charts/nodes-chart.js
index 4f16b1879..32c9d4eff 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/charts/nodes-chart.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/charts/nodes-chart.js
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ export default class NodesChart extends React.Component {
       <div className="nodes-chart">
         {errorEmpty}
         {errorMaxNodesExceeded}
-        <svg width="100%" height="100%" className={svgClassNames} onClick={this.handleMouseClick}>
+        <svg width="100%" height="100%" id="nodes-chart-canvas" className={svgClassNames} onClick={this.handleMouseClick}>
           <g className="canvas" transform={transform}>
             <g className="edges">
               {edgeElements}
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/components/app.js b/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
index 9a796b5a1..80bb4f3c7 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import Status from './status.js';
 import Topologies from './topologies.js';
 import TopologyOptions from './topology-options.js';
 import { getApiDetails, getTopologies, basePathSlash } from '../utils/web-api-utils';
-import { clickForceRelayout, hitEsc } from '../actions/app-actions';
+import { clickDownloadGraph, clickForceRelayout, hitEsc } from '../actions/app-actions';
 import Details from './details';
 import Nodes from './nodes';
 import EmbeddedTerminal from './embedded-terminal';
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ export default class App extends React.Component {
           <a className={forceRelayoutClassName} onClick={clickForceRelayout} title={forceRelayoutTitle}>
             <span className="fa fa-refresh" />
           </a>
+          <a className="footer-label footer-label-icon" onClick={clickDownloadGraph} title="Save canvas as SVG">
+            <span className="fa fa-download" />
+          </a>
           <a className="footer-label footer-label-icon" href={otherContrastModeUrl} title={otherContrastModeTitle}>
             <span className="fa fa-adjust" />
           </a>
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/utils/file-utils.js b/client/app/scripts/utils/file-utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2533e6f81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/app/scripts/utils/file-utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+// adapted from https://github.com/NYTimes/svg-crowbar
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+const doctype = '<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">';
+const prefix = {
+  xmlns: 'http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/',
+  xlink: 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
+  svg: 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'
+};
+
+function setInlineStyles(svg, emptySvgDeclarationComputed) {
+  function explicitlySetStyle(element) {
+    const cSSStyleDeclarationComputed = getComputedStyle(element);
+    let value;
+    let computedStyleStr = '';
+    _.each(cSSStyleDeclarationComputed, key => {
+      value = cSSStyleDeclarationComputed.getPropertyValue(key);
+      if (value !== emptySvgDeclarationComputed.getPropertyValue(key)) {
+        computedStyleStr += key + ':' + value + ';';
+      }
+    });
+    element.setAttribute('style', computedStyleStr);
+  }
+
+  function traverse(obj) {
+    const tree = [];
+
+    function visit(node) {
+      if (node && node.hasChildNodes()) {
+        let child = node.firstChild;
+        while (child) {
+          if (child.nodeType === 1 && child.nodeName !== 'SCRIPT') {
+            tree.push(child);
+            visit(child);
+          }
+          child = child.nextSibling;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    tree.push(obj);
+    visit(obj);
+    return tree;
+  }
+
+  // hardcode computed css styles inside svg
+  const allElements = traverse(svg);
+  let i = allElements.length;
+  while (i--) {
+    explicitlySetStyle(allElements[i]);
+  }
+  // set font
+  svg.setAttribute('style', 'font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;');
+}
+
+function download(source) {
+  let filename = 'untitled';
+
+  if (source.id) {
+    filename = source.id;
+  } else if (source.class) {
+    filename = source.class;
+  } else if (window.document.title) {
+    filename = window.document.title.replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, '-').toLowerCase();
+  }
+
+  const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(source.source,
+    {'type': 'text\/xml'}
+  ));
+
+  const a = document.createElement('a');
+  document.body.appendChild(a);
+  a.setAttribute('class', 'svg-crowbar');
+  a.setAttribute('download', filename + '.svg');
+  a.setAttribute('href', url);
+  a.style.display = 'none';
+  a.click();
+
+  setTimeout(function() {
+    window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
+  }, 10);
+}
+
+function getSVG(doc, emptySvgDeclarationComputed) {
+  const svg = document.getElementById('nodes-chart-canvas');
+
+  svg.setAttribute('version', '1.1');
+
+  // removing attributes so they aren't doubled up
+  svg.removeAttribute('xmlns');
+  svg.removeAttribute('xlink');
+
+  // These are needed for the svg
+  if (!svg.hasAttributeNS(prefix.xmlns, 'xmlns')) {
+    svg.setAttributeNS(prefix.xmlns, 'xmlns', prefix.svg);
+  }
+
+  if (!svg.hasAttributeNS(prefix.xmlns, 'xmlns:xlink')) {
+    svg.setAttributeNS(prefix.xmlns, 'xmlns:xlink', prefix.xlink);
+  }
+
+  setInlineStyles(svg, emptySvgDeclarationComputed);
+
+  const source = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(svg);
+
+  return {
+    class: svg.getAttribute('class'),
+    id: svg.getAttribute('id'),
+    childElementCount: svg.childElementCount,
+    source: [doctype + source]
+  };
+}
+
+function cleanup() {
+  const crowbarElements = document.querySelectorAll('.svg-crowbar');
+
+  [].forEach.call(crowbarElements, function(el) {
+    el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
+  });
+}
+
+export function saveGraph() {
+  window.URL = (window.URL || window.webkitURL);
+
+  // add empty svg element
+  const emptySvg = window.document.createElementNS(prefix.svg, 'svg');
+  window.document.body.appendChild(emptySvg);
+  const emptySvgDeclarationComputed = getComputedStyle(emptySvg);
+
+  const svgSource = getSVG(document, emptySvgDeclarationComputed);
+  download(svgSource);
+
+  cleanup();
+}
diff --git a/client/package.json b/client/package.json
index 824502f96..05a8b9756 100644
--- a/client/package.json
+++ b/client/package.json
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {
+    "browser-filesaver": "^1.1.0",
     "classnames": "^2.2.1",
     "d3": "~3.5.5",
     "dagre": "0.7.4",