Various embodiments include methods and systems for managing a volume of misbehavior reports. In various embodiments, a vehicle processing system may identify one or more misbehavior observations from among a plurality of misbehavior observations made by the vehicle processing system based on one or more volume management criteria for misbehavior report generation, generate a misbehavior report including information about the identified misbehavior observations, and transmit the generated misbehavior report to a network computing device.