# Reporting error while trying to generate CSV from Kibana (filebeats)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 30, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796 "2024-08-30T06:08:43Z")
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### Author: ![fae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fae/32/126966_2.png) [@fae](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fae)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796/1 "2024-08-30T06:08:43Z")

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As above image, I am trying to generate CSV for my filebeat but there's a Reporting error which I can't solve, anyone able to advise?

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796/2 "2024-08-30T06:11:34Z")

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Hello,

From the screenshot can see 280,848,022 hits. Could you please reduce the search filter to last 15 minutes & try to Generate CSV. This will confirm if it is due to the huge number of records or a different issue. Also for more details can review the Kibana Log file/Elasticsearch Log file as well.

Thanks

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### Author: ![fae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fae/32/126966_2.png) [@fae](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fae)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796/3 "2024-08-30T07:46:03Z")

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Hi Tortoise,

I am able to extract now but I'm hitting a max size limit reached as seen below:

 ![c](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/c/3cdd64ef31ff52d4d09cfe75845adc2fcf3b50f1.png)

any possible workarounds for this? I can only see 15 mins of logs instead of 3 months

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-error-while-trying-to-generate-csv-from-kibana-filebeats/365796/4 "2024-08-30T08:54:32Z")

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Hello,

There is a **10MB limit by default** which can be configured via the xpack. reporting. csv. maxSizeBytes setting in kibana.

Below thread can be helpful

> [@Downloading large amount of logs as CSV using Kibana/Eland](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downloading-large-amount-of-logs-as-csv-using-kibana-eland/343768/4):
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> Hi @xynobob, Sorry to hear that Elastic Support were not of much help. We're happy to do our best efforts here! There is a 10MB limit by default which can be configured via the [xpack.reporting.csv.maxSizeBytes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-settings-kb.html#reporting-csv-settings) setting in kibana.yml for your cluster [as per this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-generate-csv-maximum-limit/134692). You'll see [in the docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-settings-kb.html#reporting-csv-settings) that we recommend if you need to export more than 250MB you might want to consider exporting in smaller batches, which you could do by splitting your requests across multiple timeframes. For the first opt…