Role Trails

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title: Role Trails
description: Displays audits of roles in the ServiceNow instance.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/identity/role-trails.html
release: australia
product: Identity
classification: identity
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Identity Audit Results, Identity and Access Audit, Identity]
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# Role Trails

Displays audits of roles in the ServiceNow® instance.

For a given role, Role Trails show:

-   Attribute changes
-   Parent-child relation changes

To access Role Trails, navigate to **All** > **System Security** > **Identity and Access Audit** > **Role Trails**. The Role Trails page is displayed with the following information.

| | |
|---|---|
|Role Name|Name of the role.|
|Role Sys id|Details about the Role sys\_id for the audited record.|
|Source Table|Details about the Source Table where the audit is performed.|
|Action|Describes the audit action.|
|Created By|The user who made the change.|
|Created|The time and date the audit was performed.|

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