Get active user session

Vinod Bongoni

Certified Lead Developer

over 6 years ago

How can we find whether a particular user is currently logged in or not?

The login audit will gives us only last login time and AFAIK there are no logout audits.

I haven't find any functions, audits, classes in API to get the user session. Do we have any user session objects at server side? So that I can create a plugin to do this functionality.

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0 dominics over 6 years ago

You can see current logged in users by going to the admin console. Under Monitoring in the side bar select Current User Activity. This will give you a list of all users currently logged into the system.
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0 kevinb0010
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago

As mentioned in the previous post, this information is available via the Admin console. However, there does not appear to be any public API to get this data. Please see the following tempo post for more information:

forum.appian.com/.../e-210289
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0 Vinod Bongoni
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago

Thanks dominics,kevinb807. Yes, we can see it from the admin console but am looking to get this info from API or any functions.
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0 riteshp over 6 years ago

Few ideas: 1) to check with login-audit.csv every time -> not a good idea if you have distributed system and logs are not centralized 2) Push login data in periodically in DB and check with login time from DB + default session timeout 3) Not recommended, write you own 'session listener' (configure in web.xml) to push login data into db (extracted from SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT) everytime when user login or logout.
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0 Mike Cichy
Appian Employee
over 6 years ago

Vinrod, what is the use case? If you had this information, what capability would it enable?
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0 ambrishs
Certified Senior Developer
over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Cichy

Hi Mike,
It's been a while since this question was raised, Do you know any solution as of now to find currently logged in users? We have a need to pull currently logged in users as it is a very time sensitive activity to be completed.
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0 Shiva Valusa
A Score Level 2
over 4 years ago in reply to ambrishs

Hi ambrishs695,

AFAIK, Current logged in user feature is not available in Appian. Please refer below plug-ins, might be helpful.

1. forum.appian.com/.../summary
2. forum.appian.com/.../summary
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