diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/test_context.go b/test/e2e/framework/test_context.go
index 848d7f0e641..6d8e1c7e12e 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/test_context.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/test_context.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/reporters"
 	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/types"
 
 	restclient "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
@@ -356,14 +357,6 @@ func CreateGinkgoConfig() (types.SuiteConfig, types.ReporterConfig) {
 	suiteConfig.RandomizeAllSpecs = true
 	// Turn on verbose by default to get spec names
 	reporterConfig.Verbose = true
-	// Enable JUnit output to the result directory, but only if not already specified
-	// via -junit-report.
-	if reporterConfig.JUnitReport == "" && TestContext.ReportDir != "" {
-		// With Ginkgo v1, we used to write one file per parallel node. Now Ginkgo v2 automatically
-		// merges all results into a single file for us. The 01 suffix is kept in case that users
-		// expect files to be called "junit_<prefix><number>.xml".
-		reporterConfig.JUnitReport = path.Join(TestContext.ReportDir, "junit_"+TestContext.ReportPrefix+"01.xml")
-	}
 	// Disable skipped tests unless they are explicitly requested.
 	if len(suiteConfig.FocusStrings) == 0 && len(suiteConfig.SkipStrings) == 0 {
 		suiteConfig.SkipStrings = []string{`\[Flaky\]|\[Feature:.+\]`}
@@ -561,4 +554,54 @@ func AfterReadingAllFlags(t *TestContextType) {
 		}
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
+
+	if TestContext.ReportDir != "" {
+		ginkgo.ReportAfterSuite("Kubernetes e2e JUnit report", writeJUnitReport)
+	}
+}
+
+// writeJUnitReport generates a JUnit file in the e2e report directory that is
+// shorter than the one normally written by `ginkgo --junit-report`. This is
+// needed because the full report can become too large for tools like Spyglass
+// (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/111510).
+//
+// Users who want the full report can use `--junit-report`.
+func writeJUnitReport(report ginkgo.Report) {
+	trimmedReport := report
+	trimmedReport.SpecReports = nil
+	for _, specReport := range report.SpecReports {
+		// Remove details for any spec that hasn't failed. In Prow,
+		// the test output captured in build-log.txt has all of this
+		// information, so we don't need it in the XML.
+		if specReport.State != types.SpecStateFailed {
+			specReport.CapturedGinkgoWriterOutput = ""
+			specReport.CapturedStdOutErr = ""
+		}
+
+		// Remove report entries generated by ginkgo.By("doing
+		// something") because those are not useful (just have the
+		// start time) and cause Spyglass to show an additional "open
+		// stdout" button with a summary of the steps, which usually
+		// doesn't help. We don't remove all entries because other
+		// measurements also get reported this way.
+		//
+		// Removing the report entries is okay because message text was
+		// already added to the test output when ginkgo.By was called.
+		reportEntries := specReport.ReportEntries
+		specReport.ReportEntries = nil
+		for _, reportEntry := range reportEntries {
+			if reportEntry.Name != "By Step" {
+				specReport.ReportEntries = append(specReport.ReportEntries, reportEntry)
+			}
+		}
+
+		trimmedReport.SpecReports = append(trimmedReport.SpecReports, specReport)
+	}
+
+	// With Ginkgo v1, we used to write one file per parallel node. Now
+	// Ginkgo v2 automatically merges all results into a report for us. The
+	// 01 suffix is kept in case that users expect files to be called
+	// "junit_<prefix><number>.xml".
+	junitReport := path.Join(TestContext.ReportDir, "junit_"+TestContext.ReportPrefix+"01.xml")
+	reporters.GenerateJUnitReport(trimmedReport, junitReport)
 }