Monitoring Splunk

Session timeout log

tnogi
Engager

Set the session timeout in Splunk,
When time-out and return to the login screen,
Where is the log output when logging out?

What is the message when it is output?

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delink
Communicator

We were trying to answer this same question and came up with nothing. There does not seem to be a log anywhere that shows a session getting reaped.

An example of a search I ran is:

index=_internal sourcetype=splunk_web_service | stats count by reason

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