Session Timeouts / User Logout

[Jamsta1912]

Hi all,

I have a requirement to produce a report showing user 'activity'. One part of this will be to show user login times and logout times, but for the logout times I need to include session timeouts. I can see login and logout events in the event log, but no equivalent session timeout event (or at least, not with a name that's easily recognised). Does such an event exist? If not, is there some other mechanism I can use to grab details of when user sessions have timed out?

[shruti_tyagi]

Hi Jamie,

When session will timeout it will going to record as logout event. As we are logging out user due to inactivity or whatever reason it will gonna be logout event. And for login you can find login even and session.established once session is established. The only place where you have this information is local host logs, thats the reason of logout due to inactivity.

Does that make sense?

[Jamsta1912]

Hi Shruti,

Thank you for your reply, but it doesn't seem to be the case that session timeouts are recorded as a logout in the event log. The logout event is only there if the user actually logs out. Or, am I maybe looking in the wrong place?

[shruti_tyagi]

Hi Jamie,

I tested it on my OOB instance, I set timeout to 1 minute and checked event table, logout event created when my session was timeout. You can test it too in your instance. And this makes sense too, session timeout means user is logged out.

[Jamsta1912]

Hi Shruti

I tested it and it's not happening for me:(

We're on Geneva- might be a release specific thing, or maybe there's some other property I need to set.

Jamie