Feature Request: Expand Telemetry Export Capacity and Add Granular Filtering
under review
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Timothy Cogar
Issue
The current Telemetry Report has two limitations that significantly reduce its usefulness in a large enterprise environment:
CSV export is limited to approximately 50,000 devices.
Administrators cannot sufficiently scope the report by location or similar organizational criteria before export.
For an organization with a device population larger than the export ceiling, this prevents administrators from retrieving the complete Telemetry dataset.
At the same time, the lack of granular filtering prevents administrators from isolating a smaller operational scope, such as a specific school, when troubleshooting deployments or agent-health issues.
Operational Impact
These limitations make it difficult to use Telemetry for proactive device and agent management.
Examples include:
validating an agent deployment at a specific school;
identifying devices at one location that did not receive an update;
comparing agent versions across locations;
isolating a suspected deployment issue;
reviewing agent health for a particular organizational group;
exporting the complete district fleet for reconciliation or analysis.
At WCPSS scale, the current 50,000-device limit means a full-fleet export is not possible.
If administrators also cannot narrow the report sufficiently before export, there is no practical way to retrieve either the entire environment or a targeted operational subset.
Requested Enhancement
WCPSS requests that Lightspeed address one or preferably both of the following areas.
- Remove or Increase the Export Limitation
Allow administrators to export the complete Telemetry result set.
Possible implementation methods could include:
removal of the 50,000-record ceiling;
significantly increasing the limit;
asynchronous report generation;
paginated export;
multiple-part CSV generation;
another supported method for retrieving the entire dataset.
The specific implementation is flexible as long as administrators can retrieve the complete report.
- Add Granular Report Filtering
Allow Telemetry to be filtered before export using meaningful organizational and technical attributes.
At minimum, WCPSS requests filtering by:
school/location;
organizational group where applicable;
operating system;
agent version;
last check-in or reporting status.
Location filtering is particularly important because it allows administrators to isolate a school-specific deployment or health issue without processing the entire district dataset.
Preferred Behavior
Administrators should be able to perform workflows such as:
Location: School A
Operating System: Windows
Agent Version: Below current version
and export only those matching devices.
Alternatively, an administrator should be able to select:
All Devices
and retrieve the complete fleet without the report being truncated at 50,000 records.
Export Transparency
If an export is subject to any limit, the console should clearly indicate:
the total number of matching records;
the number of records included in the export;
whether the export has been truncated.
Administrators should never have to determine after the fact that a dataset was incomplete.
Requested Outcome
Make Telemetry reporting usable at enterprise scale by providing either:
complete fleet export capability;
sufficient granular filtering to retrieve targeted datasets;
or preferably both.
The preferred model is:
Filter to the operational scope needed → export the complete matching result set
while still retaining the ability to export the full fleet when required.
Acceptance Criteria
This request would be considered addressed when:
Administrators can export more than 50,000 Telemetry records or otherwise retrieve the complete matching dataset.
Telemetry can be filtered by school/location.
Additional useful filters such as operating system, agent version, and last check-in are available.
Applied filters are respected by the export.
The interface clearly identifies when an export is incomplete or limited.
Administrators can isolate a location-specific deployment or agent-health issue without manually processing the entire district dataset.
A complete district-wide dataset can be retrieved when required.
Business Value
This enhancement would:
make Telemetry usable at large-district scale;
improve deployment validation;
support proactive agent-health analysis;
reduce troubleshooting time;
allow school-specific investigations;
improve reconciliation with asset and endpoint-management data;
prevent administrators from relying on incomplete exports.
The core requirement is:
Telemetry should support both the size of the organization and the ability to narrow the data to the scope being investigated.
Matthew Burg
updated the status to
under review