Role Trails

concept brazil Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read role-trails.md

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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title: Role Trails
description: Displays audits of roles in the ServiceNow instance.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/platform-security/identity/role-trails.html
release: brazil
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** &gt; **System Security** &gt; **Identity and Access Audit** &gt; **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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