<h2>Enable auditing for a system table</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="task" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Enable auditing for a system table" /><meta name="abstract" content="Deletions from tables with a sys_ prefix are not audited by default. To track deletions from these tables, add the table name to the glide.ui.audit_deleted_tables property. Enabling the Restore Deleted Records plugin adds several default values to this property." /><meta name="description" content="Deletions from tables with a sys_ prefix are not audited by default. To track deletions from these tables, add the table name to the glide.ui.audit_deleted_tables property. Enabling the Restore Deleted Records plugin adds several default values to this property." /><meta name="DC.subject" content="system logs, restore deleted records, configure, system table, deletion audit" /><meta name="keywords" content="system logs, restore deleted records, configure, system table, deletion audit" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2024-02-01" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="t_ConSysTablDelAud" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Enable auditing for a system table</title></head><body id="t_ConSysTablDelAud"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Enable auditing for a system table</h1> <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">Deletions from tables with a sys_ prefix are not audited by default. To track deletions from these tables, add the table name to the <span class="keyword parmname">glide.ui.audit_deleted_tables</span> property. Enabling the Restore Deleted Records plugin adds several default values to this property.</p> <div class="section prereq p">Role required: admin</div> <ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Navigate to <span class="ph menucascade"><span class="ph uicontrol">All</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">System Properties</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">UI Properties</span></span>.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Locate the <span class="ph uicontrol">List of system tables (beginning with "sys_", comma separated) that will have the delete audited</span> property.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Add or remove table names.</span> <div class="itemgroup info">Table names should be separated by commas, without any spaces.</div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Click <span class="ph uicontrol">Save</span>.</span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> For more information about auditing, see <a class="xref" href="../../security/concept/c_UnderstandingTheSysAuditTable.html" title="The ServiceNow AI Platform tracks inserts and updates to audited records in the Sys Audit (sys_audit) and Audit Relationship Change (sys_audit_relation) tables.">Understanding the sys audit Table</a>.</div> </div> </li></ol> </div> </body></html></div>