How long does JIRA wait to auto-logout due to inactivity?

[Tini Good]

I've noticed that JIRA will auto-log your account out after an unknown period of inactivity. Does anyone know the length of time? Is there a way to change it?

[richie_gee · Accepted solution]

Hi Christine,

By default, I think the session timeout is configured to 60 minutes. However you can change this by following the procedure on the following link

https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=193299034

I haven't try this out, but hope this helps :) cheers

[Renjith Pillai]

And it is also influenced by the presence of plugins which can result in JIRA never getting timedout due to automatic refresh of data from pages

[Tini Good]

I went poking around for this session timeout page in the latest version of JIRA and discovered that the time period has apparently increased to 5 hours. It certainly doesn't seem that long in practice....

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Changing+the+default+session+timeout