system.session_log

Querying in ClickHouse Cloud

The data in this system table is held locally on each node in ClickHouse Cloud. Obtaining a complete view of all data, therefore, requires the clusterAllReplicas function. See here for further details.

Description

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

Columns

• hostname (LowCardinality(String)) — Hostname of the server executing the query.
• type (Enum8('LoginFailure' = 0, 'LoginSuccess' = 1, 'Logout' = 2)) — 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(6)) — Login/logout starting time with microseconds precision.
• user (Nullable(String)) — User name.
• auth_type (Nullable(Enum8('NO_PASSWORD' = 0, 'PLAINTEXT_PASSWORD' = 1, 'SHA256_PASSWORD' = 2, 'DOUBLE_SHA1_PASSWORD' = 3, 'LDAP' = 4, 'KERBEROS' = 5, 'SSL_CERTIFICATE' = 6, 'BCRYPT_PASSWORD' = 7, 'SSH_KEY' = 8, 'HTTP' = 9, 'JWT' = 10, 'SCRAM_SHA256_PASSWORD' = 11, 'NO_AUTHENTICATION' = 12))) — The authentication type.
• 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('TCP' = 1, 'HTTP' = 2, 'gRPC' = 3, 'MySQL' = 4, 'PostgreSQL' = 5, 'Local' = 6, 'TCP_Interserver' = 7, 'Prometheus' = 8, 'Background' = 9)) — The interface from which the login was initiated.
• 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:
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hostname:                clickhouse.eu-central1.internal
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: