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title: Reviewing external content connector crawl results and analytics
description: Search administrators can review crawl histories and analytics for external content connectors to gain a better understanding of what they're crawling. Administrators with the ais\_high\_security\_admin elevated role can also review user and group permission mappings for external content connectors to verify that source system security principals are correctly associated with ServiceNow AI Platform users.
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# Reviewing external content connector crawl results and analytics

Search administrators can review crawl histories and analytics for external content connectors to gain a better understanding of what they're crawling. Administrators with the ais\_high\_security\_admin elevated role can also review user and group permission mappings for external content connectors to verify that source system security principals are correctly associated with ServiceNow AI Platform® users.

To access the External Content Connectors application, navigate to **All** > **External Content Connectors** > **External Content Admin Home**. From this page, you can select an individual connector to review its crawl history, its analytics, or its user permissions.

-   **[Review crawl history for an external content connector](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-administration/review-crawl-ext-cont-connector.md)**  
View crawl history records for an external content connector. Drill into a crawl history record to see metrics and alerts for the crawl in question.
-   **[Review analytics for an external content connector](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-administration/review-analytics-external-content-connector.md)**  
Review analytics for an external content connector to gain insight into its crawl behavior.
-   **[Review indexing status for individual content items](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-administration/review-indexing-status-content-items.md)**  
View indexing status, selected fields, errors, and user and group access permissions for individual content items using the Index inspector tool in the external content connector editor.
-   **[Review user permissions for an external content connector](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-administration/review-usr-maps-ext-cont-connector.md)**  
View user and group access permissions retrieved by an external content connector, and see how the connector maps those permissions to your ServiceNow AI Platform® instance's users.

**Parent Topic:**[External Content Connectors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-administration/ext-cont-connectors-landing-page.md)