View activity of a best practice
Track the chronological and timestamped history related to a security best practice that you're completing on your ServiceNow instance, along with the user that initiated the activity.
Before you begin
Role required: admin
Procedure
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Access Security Best Practices Manager by selecting All on your ServiceNow instance and then enter best practice.
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On the Best Practices table, select a security best practice you want to view the activity for in the Name column.
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Select the Activity tab.
Examples of activity that you can view includes field changes such as if the status of a security best practice has changed from Open to Complete, or when a task step is completed or skipped. In addition, you can enter additional information related to an activity by entering in a comment in the text box.
Parent Topic:Security Best Practices
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title: View activity of a best practice
description: Track the chronological and timestamped history related to a security best practice that you're completing on your ServiceNow instance, along with the user that initiated the activity.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/security-center/view-activity-of-a-best-practice.html
release: australia
product: Security Center
classification: security-center
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Security Best Practices, Security posture console, Security Center, Platform Security]
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# View activity of a best practice
Track the chronological and timestamped history related to a security best practice that you're completing on your ServiceNow instance, along with the user that initiated the activity.
## Before you begin
Role required: admin
## Procedure
1. Access Security Best Practices Manager by selecting **All** on your ServiceNow instance and then enter best practice.
2. On the Best Practices table, select a security best practice you want to view the activity for in the **Name** column.
3. Select the **Activity** tab.
Examples of activity that you can view includes field changes such as if the status of a security best practice has changed from Open to Complete, or when a task step is completed or skipped. In addition, you can enter additional information related to an activity by entering in a comment in the text box.
**Parent Topic:**[Security Best Practices](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/security-center/security-best-practices-manager.md)
| title | View activity of a best practice |
| description | Track the chronological and timestamped history related to a security best practice that you're completing on your ServiceNow instance, along with the user that initiated the activity. |
| locale | en-US |
| canonical_url | https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/security-center/view-activity-of-a-best-practice.html |
| release | australia |
| product | Security Center |
| classification | security-center |
| topic_type | task |
| last_updated | 2026-09-10 |
| reading_time_minutes | 1 |
| breadcrumb | Security Best PracticesSecurity posture consoleSecurity CenterPlatform Security |