This article applies to:

• Security Reporter

Question:

• What format should I use when saving or exporting a detail report?
• What are the fastest report formats to generate?
• Are there limits on the size of detail reports?
• How can I decide what format to use for a detail report?

Reply:

Security Reporter allows you to download and schedule reports in PDF, HTML, CSV, or XLS format.

Detail reports that have a very large number of lines can take a long time to generate and can consume memory, disk space, and other resources on the reporting appliance and client workstation. In extreme cases a report can fail due to memory or disk limitations.

Determining the number of records

To determine how many detail records will be returned, use a Summary Drill Down report.

• If the result set is larger than 100,000 records you should consider narrowing the set by applying additional filters.
• Select a format based on the suggestions above.

Notes:

• Formats in order from fastest to slowest generation are: CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS.
• Time to generate a report depends directly on the complexity of formatting.
• SR can generate reports with many more than 250,000 records in HTML format, but many browsers will not be able to render the resulting HTML pages.