# Disable Kibana Session Timeout

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 9, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966 "2023-05-09T15:30:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pocketcolin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pocketcolin/32/117585_2.png) [@pocketcolin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pocketcolin)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966/1 "2023-05-09T15:30:19Z")

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I have a dashboard displayed on a TV in my office that shows auto-refreshed stats through a Kibana dashboard. I am trying to disable the Kibana Session Timeout so that it never logs out, but the Kibana documentation doesn't actually say _how_ to disable it. Additionally, I set it to `1000d` but the TV logged out after 17 days which also didn't make much sense to me because the max timeout says it's 30 days.

Kibana.yml

```auto
xpack.security.session.lifespan: "1000d"

```

ELK Setup: Elastic Cloud  
Version: 8.7.1

How can I prevent the TV from ever logging out?

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**Author:** ![pocketcolin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pocketcolin/32/117585_2.png) [@pocketcolin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pocketcolin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966/2 "2023-05-17T20:21:49Z")

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Anyone know how to do this?

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**Author:** ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966/3 "2023-05-19T13:35:18Z")

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Hey @pocketcolin ,

You probably need to change `xpack.security.session.idleTimeout` as well.

> **[Session management | Kibana Guide \[8.7\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-security-session-management.html#session-idle-timeout)**
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> A list of the supported authentication mechanisms in Kibana.

According to [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/security-settings-kb.html#xpack-session-idleTimeout), setting to **0** ` sessions will never expire due to inactivity`

Best, Dima

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**Author:** ![pocketcolin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pocketcolin/32/117585_2.png) [@pocketcolin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pocketcolin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966/4 "2023-05-19T13:49:24Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion, Dima! I'll give that a try and see if it fixes it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-session-timeout/332966/5 "2023-06-16T13:50:26Z")

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