Data Quality user documentation | Restrict user sessions

Aperture Data Studio provides settings to control user login sessions for compliance and security purposes.

Restrict user to one active session

For compliance or security reasons, you may want to limit each user to one active login session at a time.

By default, this option is disabled. To enable it, go to Settings > Security and enable Restrict one session per user.

When enabled, users will be logged out when they attempt to open Data Studio:

In two separate browsers,
On two different devices or
In both a standard and an incognito Chrome windows.

Opening Data Studio in multiple tabs/windows on the same browser or logging in via the API will not be affected.

Configure session timeout

You can configure how long a user can remain inactive before they are logged out. The industry-standard is 15 minutes.

To configure this setting, go to Settings > Security and set Login session timeout (minutes). For Catalog users, restart Data Studio for changes to take effect.

To allow installation managers to configure a different session timeout for each environment, enable Allow timeout to be overridden per Environment.

Reducing the session timeout value increases security by limiting the window during which an inactive, unattended session could be accessed by someone else.

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