A record is only generated if a significant change has occurred to the fields being written in a specific record. This capability applies to both ingress and egress records regardless on the method of delivery (such as RADIUS and XML). The capability also applies to Application Assurance records; however without an ability to specify different significant change values and per-field scope (for example, all fields of a custom record are collected if any activity was reported against any of the statistics that are part of the custom record).