---
layout: commands
page_title: 'Commands: ACL Role List'
description: |
  The `consul acl role list` command outputs details for all ACL roles, including the policy IDs attached to each role.
---

# Consul ACL Role List

Command: `consul acl role list`

Corresponding HTTP API Endpoint: [\[GET\] /v1/acl/roles](/consul/api-docs/acl/roles#list-roles)

The `acl role list` command lists all roles. By default it will not show metadata.

The table below shows this command's [required ACLs](/consul/api-docs/api-structure#authentication). Configuration of
[blocking queries](/consul/api-docs/features/blocking) and [agent caching](/consul/api-docs/features/caching)
are not supported from commands, but may be from the corresponding HTTP endpoint.

| ACL Required |
| ------------ |
| `acl:read`   |

## Usage

Usage: `consul acl role list`

#### Command Options

- `-meta` - Indicates that role metadata such as the content hash and
  Raft indices should be shown for each entry.

- `-format={pretty|json}` - Command output format. The default value is `pretty`.

#### Enterprise Options

@include 'cli-http-api-partition-options.mdx'

@include 'http_api_namespace_options.mdx'

#### API Options

@include 'http_api_options_client.mdx'

@include 'http_api_options_server.mdx'

## Examples

Default listing.

```shell-session
$ consul acl role list
web-crawler:
   ID:           57147d87-6bf7-f794-1a6e-7d038c4e4ae9
   Description:  web crawler updated role
   Policies:
      2f8f99c7-edd9-2f09-7e4b-a1f519eb4fc2 - crawler-kv
   Service Identities:
      crawler (Datacenters: all)
archiver:
   ID:           a365fdc9-ac71-e754-0645-7ab6bd747301
   Description:  archiver role
   Service Identities:
      archiver (Datacenters: dc2)
```

Show Metadata.

```shell-session
$ consul acl role list -meta
web-crawler:
   ID:           57147d87-6bf7-f794-1a6e-7d038c4e4ae9
   Description:  web crawler updated role
   Hash:         3bd7c15a77c8d1d45c515378f1176df2e6f76d9c96d541f96de8272ff4dba7b5
   Create Index: 18
   Modify Index: 39
   Policies:
      2f8f99c7-edd9-2f09-7e4b-a1f519eb4fc2 - crawler-kv
   Service Identities:
      crawler (Datacenters: all)
archiver:
   ID:           a365fdc9-ac71-e754-0645-7ab6bd747301
   Description:  archiver role
   Hash:         9af397ea92ee901366d6333c658195be16f4aee8aa64d2b529b921c879b70a58
   Create Index: 22
   Modify Index: 22
   Service Identities:
      archiver (Datacenters: dc2)
```