ClickHouse/docs/en/operations/system-tables/session_log.md

session_log

Contains information about all successful and failed login and logout events.

Columns:

• type (Enum8) — Login/logout result. Possible values:
  • LoginFailure — Login error.
  • LoginSuccess — Successful login.
  • Logout — Logout from the system.
• auth_id (UUID) — Authentication ID, which is a UUID that is automatically generated each time user logins.
• session_id (String) — Session ID that is passed by client via HTTP interface.
• event_date (Date) — Login/logout date.
• event_time (DateTime) — Login/logout time.
• event_time_microseconds (DateTime64) — Login/logout starting time with microseconds precision.
• user (String) — User name.
• auth_type (Enum8) — The authentication type. Possible values:
  • NO_PASSWORD
  • PLAINTEXT_PASSWORD
  • SHA256_PASSWORD
  • DOUBLE_SHA1_PASSWORD
  • LDAP
  • KERBEROS
• profiles (Array(LowCardinality(String))) — The list of profiles set for all roles and/or users.
• roles (Array(LowCardinality(String))) — The list of roles to which the profile is applied.
• settings (Array(Tuple(LowCardinality(String), String))) — Settings that were changed when the client logged in/out.
• client_address (IPv6) — The IP address that was used to log in/out.
• client_port (UInt16) — The client port that was used to log in/out.
• interface (Enum8) — The interface from which the login was initiated. Possible values:
  • TCP
  • HTTP
  • gRPC
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
• client_hostname (String) — The hostname of the client machine where the clickhouse-client or another TCP client is run.
• client_name (String) — The clickhouse-client or another TCP client name.
• client_revision (UInt32) — Revision of the clickhouse-client or another TCP client.
• client_version_major (UInt32) — The major version of the clickhouse-client or another TCP client.
• client_version_minor (UInt32) — The minor version of the clickhouse-client or another TCP client.
• client_version_patch (UInt32) — Patch component of the clickhouse-client or another TCP client version.
• failure_reason (String) — The exception message containing the reason for the login/logout failure.

Example

Query:

SELECT * FROM system.session_log LIMIT 1 FORMAT Vertical;

Result:

Row 1:
──────
type:                    LoginSuccess
auth_id:                 45e6bd83-b4aa-4a23-85e6-bd83b4aa1a23
session_id:
event_date:              2021-10-14
event_time:              2021-10-14 20:33:52
event_time_microseconds: 2021-10-14 20:33:52.104247
user:                    default
auth_type:               PLAINTEXT_PASSWORD
profiles:                ['default']
roles:                   []
settings:                [('load_balancing','random'),('max_memory_usage','10000000000')]
client_address:          ::ffff:127.0.0.1
client_port:             38490
interface:               TCP
client_hostname:
client_name:             ClickHouse client
client_revision:         54449
client_version_major:    21
client_version_minor:    10
client_version_patch:    0
failure_reason: