Request for Customized Content-Aware Report with Excel Export and Advanced Filtering

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What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?

Request for Customized Content-Aware Report with Excel Export and Advanced Filtering.

Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.

I would like to request the creation of a customized content-aware report with enhanced filtering and export capabilities.
Requirements:
Report Parameters:
The report should include the following fields:
Event,Date-Time,Computer Name, Username,Source,Destination,Destination Type,Destination Details,File Name,File Path,File Size,etc.

Critical File Type Filtering:
Implement filtering to specifically capture and report on critical file types, enabling better visibility and control over sensitive data movement.

Content-Aware Filtering:
Add advanced filters that allow the report to be refined based on content inspection (content-aware rules), ensuring more precise and relevant results.

Export Functionality:
Enable export of the report in Excel format, ensuring the data is structured and ready for analysis.

Enhanced Filtering Options:
Provide flexible filtering capabilities within the report interface, allowing users to:
Apply parameter-based filters
Filter based on content conditions
Customize output as needed before export
This enhancement will significantly improve our ability to monitor, analyze, and act on sensitive data events efficiently

How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?

Currently, we are manually reviewing exported logs, but the file sizes are quite large (in MB), which makes the process time-consuming and inefficient.

We need a solution to monitor logs in real time directly on the server, with the ability to filter based on content or keywords such as “resume”, “tax”, or other sensitive data indicators. This would help us quickly identify users attempting to upload sensitive information across all possible exit points.

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Dear Krutik,

Welcome to Netwrix Community!

Thank you for taking the time to explain in detail the desired outcome of your improvement suggestion–we totally understand what you’d like to achieve and the value behind it.
We will carefully review this request and as soon as we have an update, we will reach out to you.

Please be informed that it might take a while. We appreciate your patience.

Kind Regards,
Simona

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Currently, reporting and monitoring visibility is not optimal due to the high volume of logs being generated. At present, the EPP server verifies logs only for critical file types, which limits overall visibility in the reports. To improve monitoring and analysis, I request the implementation of customized content-aware report filtering. This will help enhance visibility by focusing on relevant events and making the reports more meaningful and manageable.

Additionally, it would be beneficial to incorporate AI-based reporting capabilities. This would enable easier tuning, correlation, and analysis across all types of logs, helping to quickly identify patterns, anomalies, and actionable insights. Kindly review and assist with configuring the required report filtering and explore the feasibility of AI-based reporting enhancements.

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Hi Krutik,

We really appreciate your valuable feedback on Netwrix Endpoint Protector! Be sure that your suggestions will be taken into consideration during the review process for the Content Aware Report improvements.

As soon as we have an update to share, we will notify you.

Thank you,
Simona

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Hi Krutik,

Most of the fields and filters you’ve described are already available under Reports & Analysis → Content Aware Report — including Event, Date/Time, Computer, Username, Source, Destination, Content Policy, Item Type, and Date Range filtering.

The real gaps are export functionality for this view (noted, on our radar — will be CSV format when available) and content/keyword-based filtering (e.g. filtering by “resume” or “tax” rather than just policy name), which is a fair ask we’ve also logged.

On the AI-based reporting idea — interesting direction, but too broad to evaluate without more concrete use cases. If you can describe the specific pain points you’d want it to solve, that would help us assess it properly.

In the meantime, using the existing filters to narrow results before exporting will help significantly with the volume issue.

Thanks for the follow-up.

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Hello Mihai,

As per your guidance, we need to check the live logs on the EPP portal for better visibility. Whenever an incident is created, we do not review all exported logs. Instead, we verify the incident details through live logs and apply filtering based on the incident content to identify the exact report before exporting.

Currently, content-based filtering is not available, which makes the process difficult.

Additionally, the export functionality is time-consuming, and sometimes the exported file gets corrupted due to the high volume of logs included in the file.

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Hi Krutik,

Thank you for clarifying the workflow — that context is helpful. Understanding that you’re using live logs for active incident investigation rather than bulk review makes the content filtering gap even clearer. Being able to filter by matched content directly in the log view before deciding what to export is a reasonable expectation and reinforces what we’ve already noted internally.

On the export corruption issue — that’s a separate concern and sounds more like a defect than a feature gap, particularly if it’s consistently happening with high-volume exports. I’d recommend opening a support ticket for that specifically so our team can investigate the root cause. If you can share approximate log volumes and the export format you’re using when it occurs, that will help significantly.

Thanks again.