# Kibana Login Session expiration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701 "2016-03-29T15:15:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tom.stark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@tom.stark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tom.stark)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/1 "2016-03-29T15:15:10Z")

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We would like to use Kibana (4.4.) version to use as TV-Dashbaord. Unfortunately the Kibana plugin expires session after specific period of time.

Where to find kibana settings for that?

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/2 "2016-03-29T17:00:54Z")

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Would you mind providing more specifics regarding your setup? Are you using Shield?

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**Author:** ![tom.stark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@tom.stark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tom.stark)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/3 "2016-03-30T15:32:11Z")

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We're using shield providing credentials for login..

And we are not sure, why the cluster needs more than one minute to analyze new data..

see cluster-id: bd3ae6

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**Author:** ![tom.stark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@tom.stark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tom.stark)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/4 "2016-03-31T09:06:28Z")

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I have tried to setup longer session timeout for kibana, done with configuration API:

curl -XPUT cluster:9234/\_cluster/settings -d '{ "persistent" : { "shield.sessionTimeout" : "31104000000" }}'

Have I to restart the kibana, that settings will work? How could I do that?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/5 "2017-07-06T13:57:20Z")

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-session-expiration/45701/6 "2018-01-09T18:30:34Z")

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FYI, in case someone finds this in search results, see;  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.1/kibana.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.1/kibana.html)

"To change the default session duration, set the xpack.security.sessionTimeout property in the kibana.yml configuration file."