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title: Journey Roles and Permissions
description: >-
  Review the roles, permissions, and restriction policies that control access to
  journeys and their linked assets.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Journey Monitoring > Journey Roles and Permissions
---

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt).

# Journey Roles and Permissions

## Overview{% #overview %}

A journey can include assets from [Product Analytics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics.md), [Real User Monitoring (RUM)](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring.md), and [Synthetic Monitoring & Testing](https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics.md). To manage a journey or one of its assets, you need the corresponding [Journey Monitoring permissions](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/rbac/permissions.md#digital-experience-monitoring) and product permissions.

## Create and edit journeys{% #create-and-edit-journeys %}

| Action                                                                                                  | Required access                                         |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Create or edit a journey                                                                                | Journey Monitoring write                                |
| Create a journey's [Synthetic test suite](https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/test_suites.md)         | Journey Monitoring write and Synthetic Monitoring write |
| Link or edit [RUM operations](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/operations_monitoring.md) | Journey Monitoring write and RUM write                  |

Journey Monitoring write access is sufficient to create a journey. Datadog creates its Synthetic test suite only if you also have Synthetic Monitoring write access. Otherwise, Datadog creates the journey without a test suite. Add a test suite later with the required access.

## View journeys and linked assets{% #view-journeys-and-linked-assets %}

| Action                                                                                                                        | Required access                                                       |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| View an event-based journey and its details                                                                                   | Journey Monitoring read and RUM read on the journey's RUM application |
| View a Synthetics-only journey                                                                                                | Journey Monitoring read                                               |
| View a test suite, its tests, and [uptime SLO](https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/test_suites.md#service-level-objectives) | Synthetic Monitoring read and a read restriction policy on the suite  |
| View linked RUM operations                                                                                                    | Journey Monitoring read and RUM read                                  |
| View an operation's SLO                                                                                                       | SLO read                                                              |
| View journey [Session Replays](https://docs.datadoghq.com/session_replay.md)                                                  | RUM read, subject to RUM data access controls                         |

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

- [Learn about Journey Monitoring](https://docs.datadoghq.com/journey_monitoring.md)
- [Configure journeys in Datadog Journey Monitoring](https://docs.datadoghq.com/journey_monitoring/configuring_journeys.md)
- [Review the full list of Datadog role permissions](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/rbac/permissions.md)