Manage GRC key risk and control indicators

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title: Manage GRC key risk and control indicators
description: Continuous monitoring involves activities related to identifying and creating key risk and control indicators. Supporting information can be collected for those indicators through automatic data collection or manual tasks. Indicator results are then used to create issues for controls, update risk scores, and provide supporting information for audit activities and control testing.
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product: Audit Management
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Audit Management overview, Audit Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
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# Manage GRC key risk and control indicators

Continuous monitoring involves activities related to identifying and creating key risk and control indicators. Supporting information can be collected for those indicators through automatic data collection or manual tasks. Indicator results are then used to create issues for controls, update risk scores, and provide supporting information for audit activities and control testing.

Indicators collect data to monitor controls and risks, and collect audit evidence. Indicators monitor a single control or risk.

## Indicator templates

Indicator templates allow the creation of multiple indicators for similar controls or risks.

-   **[Engagement Overview](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/c_AuditEngagementOverview.md)**  
The Engagement Overview provides an executive view into audit results and engagement breakdowns by task to quickly identify areas of concern.
-   **[Create a GRC indicator](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/t_CreateAnIndicator.md)**  
Create an Indicator to monitor the controls and risks and collect evidence of performance.
-   **[Create a GRC indicator template](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/t_CreateIndicatorTemplate.md)**  
Compliance or risk managers create indicator templates from which many indicators can be created.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Audit Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/using-audit-management.md)