Session detection

This section contains information about how the system distinguishes user sessions in your web traffic, or sessionizes it.

Typically, systems track a session using a single session tag and mark the end of a session by using a timeout. Your web application, however, might be more complex. For example, session tags might change during a session, or the session termination criteria might be more definitive than a timeout.

The

provides a session detection (or sessionization) feature which enables you to configure the system to:

• Regroup hits that normally would not be recognized as a part of the same session
• Use specific criteria to terminate the session
• Scope session tracking rules with filters (conditional tracking)
• Track sessions that are transferred to other servers (multi-token sessionization)
• Track sessions with mutating groups (for example, a morphing IIS ViewState cookie)

By default,

sessionizes web traffic by client IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6). Alternatively, you can configure different sessionization rules to apply to portions of your web traffic. To see which part of the traffic is sessionized by which rules, in a , point to Administration > Data flow settings and click Session detection. You will see graphical representation of the sessionization process.

Related topics

Using-the-Session-Browser
Page-detection
Object-type-detection