OpenSearch Dashboard keeps logging out after a few minutes

Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Hi there,

we have problems with our opensearch-dashboard running in a docker container.

We are logged out in irregular intervals but not more than 5-10 minutes from opensearch dashboard. All data currently working on is lost then.
It just redirects to login page.

We cannot figure out what is the problem.

Are there any settings that may increase session time? We tried it as seen in the compose file, but it didn’t work.

Also we are logged out during working / clicking in opensearch dashboard. The session should extend on every request.

I hope we can find help here.

This is the docker-compose file you use for it:

version: '3'
services:
  opensearch-node:
    image: opensearchproject/opensearch:2.1.0
    container_name: opensearch-node
    environment:
        - discovery.type=single-node
        - bootstrap.memory_lock=true # along with the memlock settings below, disables swapping
        - "OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms4096m -Xmx4096m" # minimum and maximum Java heap size, recommend setting both to 50% of system RAM
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
      nofile:
        soft: 262144 # maximum number of open files for the OpenSearch user, set to at least 65536 on modern systems
        hard: 262144
    volumes:
      - opensearch-data:/usr/share/opensearch/data
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
      - 9600:9600 # required for Performance Analyzer
    networks:
      - opensearch-network
  opensearch-dashboards:
    image: opensearchproject/opensearch-dashboards:2.1.0
    container_name: opensearch-dashboards
    ports:
      - 5601:5601
    expose:
      - "5601"
    environment:
      OPENSEARCH_HOSTS: '["https://opensearch-node:9200"]' # must be a string with no spaces when specified as an environment variable
      OPENDISTRO_SECURITY_COOKIE_TTL: 86400000
      OPENDISTRO_SECURITY_SESSION_TTL: 86400000
      OPENDISTRO_SECURITY_SESSION_KEEPALIVE: 'true'
    networks:
      - opensearch-network

volumes:
  opensearch-data:

networks:
  opensearch-network:
     external: true
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Hey @decoit-rh

OpenSearch Dashboards has a default session timeout which you can override with the following settings in your opensearch_dashboards.yaml file (note that values should be in milliseconds):

opensearch_security.cookie.ttl 
opensearch_security.session.ttl
opensearch_security.session.keepalive

Reference → Sessions expiration time · Issue #71 · opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin · GitHub