# Session Timeout

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [October 19, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686 "2015-10-19T19:26:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 32

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686/32 "2017-09-27T00:00:14Z")

</div>

Yep, it’s there in admin:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/4/84c8973565f01c30ad30912c2d0093e7a9641652.png)

The default is quite generous – around two months. I’m not sure if it supports fractional values, though – I can see that some people would prefer very short sessions (five to fifteen minutes), but the setting itself is in hours.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686)._