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title: Exporting Large Audit Reports with GAT+
description: "[GAT+](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/gat-overview/) empowers [Google Workspace](https://workspace.google.com/) administrators with comprehensive auditing capabilities. When exporting audit data, understanding the limitations and optimal approaches for large datasets is crucial. ### File Format Considerations: - **Choose the Right Format:** If your report is expected to exceed the…"
url: "https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/exporting-large-audit-reports-with-gat/"
updated: "2024-06-28"
category: "Drive Audit & Management"
tags:
  - GAT+
---

# Exporting Large Audit Reports with GAT+

[GAT+](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/gat-overview/) empowers [Google Workspace](https://workspace.google.com/) administrators with comprehensive auditing capabilities.

When exporting audit data, understanding the limitations and optimal approaches for large datasets is crucial.

### File Format Considerations:

- **Choose the Right Format:** If your report is expected to exceed the 150,000 record limit of Google Spreadsheets, select **CSV** as your export format.
  - **CSV (Recommended for Large Datasets):** Technically unlimited in size. Ideal for reports exceeding 150,000 records.
- **Utilize Scheduled Reports:** For very large reports that may encounter errors due to data volume, leverage the **Scheduled Report** feature. This allows the system to process and generate the report in the background, reducing the risk of timeouts or failures.
- **Access and Download:** Once the scheduled report is complete, administrators can access and download the CSV file containing the full dataset.

### Key Points:

- **CSV is the preferred format for large datasets in GAT+.**
- **Scheduled reports facilitate the export of very large reports.**
- **This approach ensures administrators can access complete audit data, regardless of size.**

 

### How to export data as a Scheduled report

- **Apply Filter:** Start by filtering your data to ensure you're only exporting the information you need. This helps avoid generating an overly large report.
- **Scheduled** - set up the report a scheduled report
- **Occurrence:** Choose "**Once - Now**" to generate the report immediately. Keep in mind that it might take some time to process.
- **Output Type:** Select "**CSV - Google Drive**" to save the report in CSV format directly to your Google Drive.

![Exporting Large Audit Reports ](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-27-15_39_13-.png)

- **Apply and Run:** Initiate the report generation process. This action schedules the report to run in the background.
- **Google Drive Output:** Once the report is generated, **it will be automatically saved in your Google Drive, as per the specified output type.**

![Exporting Large Audit Reports ](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-28-11_23_47-GAT-Files-with-sharing-flag_-Shared-out-DriveAudit-scheduled-report-stan.png)

By utilizing these guidelines, Google Workspace administrators can streamline the management and analysis of extensive audit data within GAT+, empowering them with deeper insights into their environment's actions.