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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List Sessions

> Paginated list of sessions.

## Request Parameters
- **range** (Literal): Time window on last_activity_at: 24h, 7d, 30d, or all
  (default: 30d).
- **status** (Optional[str]): Effective-status filter: running, completed, failed,
  or abandoned.
- **limit** (int): Page size, 1-500 (default: 50).
- **offset** (int): Rows to skip for pagination (default: 0).
- **order_by** (str): Sort column: last_activity_at, started_at, ended_at, cost_usd,
  tokens_in, or tokens_out (default: last_activity_at).
- **descending** (bool): Sort newest/largest first (default: true).

Response envelope:

```
{
  "sessions": [...],
  "total": <int>,      # rows matching filters before pagination
  "limit":  <int>,
  "offset": <int>,
  "has_more": <bool>,
}
```



## OpenAPI

````yaml /cognee_openapi_spec.json get /api/v1/sessions
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Cognee API
  description: Cognee API with Bearer token and Cookie auth
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://{tenant}.aws.cognee.ai
    description: 'Cognee Cloud: your tenant pod, named in the platform.cognee.ai dashboard'
    variables:
      tenant:
        default: your-tenant
        description: Your tenant name, shown in the Cognee Cloud dashboard
  - url: http://localhost:8000
    description: 'Self-hosted: a locally running cognee server'
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: activity
    description: >-
      Activity endpoints for inspecting pipeline runs, traced spans, tenant
      users, agents, and dataset exports.
  - name: add
    description: Data ingestion endpoints for adding text, files, and structured data.
  - name: agent connections
    description: >-
      Endpoints for registering, unregistering, and inspecting agent connections
      to the instance.
  - name: agent management
    description: Endpoints for creating, listing, retrieving, and deleting agents.
  - name: auth
    description: >-
      Authentication endpoints for user registration, login, and token
      management.
  - name: checks
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for validating a Cognee Cloud API key supplied in the
      X-Api-Key header.
  - name: cognify
    description: >-
      Knowledge processing endpoints to transform raw data into knowledge
      graphs.
  - name: configuration
    description: >-
      Endpoints for storing, retrieving, and listing a user's saved
      configurations.
  - name: datasets
    description: Dataset management endpoints for listing, creating, and deleting datasets.
  - name: delete
    description: Data deletion endpoints (deprecated — use datasets endpoints instead).
  - name: forget
    description: Endpoint for removing data from the knowledge graph.
  - name: health
    description: Liveness, readiness, and component health checks.
  - name: improve
    description: Endpoint for enriching and improving an existing knowledge graph.
  - name: integrations
    description: >-
      Endpoints for connecting, provisioning, and disconnecting OAuth providers
      and plugins.
  - name: llm
    description: >-
      LLM-backed endpoints for inferring graph schemas and generating custom
      extraction prompts.
  - name: memify
    description: >-
      Endpoint for running enrichment pipelines over existing graphs or supplied
      data.
  - name: ontologies
    description: >-
      Endpoints for uploading, listing, and deleting ontology files used during
      cognify.
  - name: permissions
    description: Permission management for multi-user access control.
  - name: recall
    description: >-
      Endpoints for querying the knowledge graph and reviewing past recall
      history.
  - name: remember
    description: >-
      Endpoints for ingesting data into the knowledge graph and storing session
      memory entries.
  - name: responses
    description: Response generation endpoints using the knowledge graph.
  - name: schema
    description: >-
      Schema inspection endpoints for a dataset's derived schema inventory and
      the caller-wide memory provenance graph.
  - name: search
    description: Search endpoints for querying the knowledge graph.
  - name: sessions
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing sessions and reporting usage, cost, and token
      statistics.
  - name: settings
    description: Configuration endpoints for managing Cognee settings.
  - name: skills
    description: >-
      Skill management endpoints for ingesting, listing, retrieving, and
      deleting dataset skills, plus read-only retrieval of improvement
      proposals.
  - name: slack
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing workspace channels, setting channel allowlists, and
      linking Slack accounts.
  - name: sync
    description: Endpoints for syncing local data to Cognee Cloud and checking sync status.
  - name: update
    description: Endpoint for updating existing data in a dataset.
  - name: users
    description: User management endpoints.
  - name: validate
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for checking consistency between a dataset's graph and
      vector stores.
  - name: visualize
    description: Graph visualization endpoints.
paths:
  /api/v1/sessions:
    get:
      tags:
        - sessions
      summary: List Sessions
      description: >-
        Paginated list of sessions.


        ## Request Parameters

        - **range** (Literal): Time window on last_activity_at: 24h, 7d, 30d, or
        all
          (default: 30d).
        - **status** (Optional[str]): Effective-status filter: running,
        completed, failed,
          or abandoned.
        - **limit** (int): Page size, 1-500 (default: 50).

        - **offset** (int): Rows to skip for pagination (default: 0).

        - **order_by** (str): Sort column: last_activity_at, started_at,
        ended_at, cost_usd,
          tokens_in, or tokens_out (default: last_activity_at).
        - **descending** (bool): Sort newest/largest first (default: true).


        Response envelope:


        ```

        {
          "sessions": [...],
          "total": <int>,      # rows matching filters before pagination
          "limit":  <int>,
          "offset": <int>,
          "has_more": <bool>,
        }

        ```
      operationId: list_sessions_api_v1_sessions_get
      parameters:
        - name: range
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            enum:
              - 24h
              - 7d
              - 30d
              - all
            type: string
            description: >-
              Time window filtered on last_activity_at: last 24 hours (24h), 7
              days (7d), 30 days (30d), or all time (all).
            examples:
              - 30d
            default: 30d
            title: Range
          description: >-
            Time window filtered on last_activity_at: last 24 hours (24h), 7
            days (7d), 30 days (30d), or all time (all).
        - name: status
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: 'null'
            description: >-
              Filter by effective status: 'running', 'completed', 'failed', or
              'abandoned'. 'abandoned' is computed at read time: stored status
              'running' with last_activity_at older than
              SESSION_ABANDON_AFTER_SECONDS (default 30 min). Any other value
              matches nothing and returns an empty list.
            examples:
              - completed
            title: Status
          description: >-
            Filter by effective status: 'running', 'completed', 'failed', or
            'abandoned'. 'abandoned' is computed at read time: stored status
            'running' with last_activity_at older than
            SESSION_ABANDON_AFTER_SECONDS (default 30 min). Any other value
            matches nothing and returns an empty list.
        - name: limit
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            maximum: 500
            minimum: 1
            description: Page size (max 500).
            default: 50
            title: Limit
          description: Page size (max 500).
        - name: offset
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 0
            description: Rows to skip for pagination.
            default: 0
            title: Offset
          description: Rows to skip for pagination.
        - name: order_by
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            description: >-
              Column to sort by: last_activity_at, started_at, ended_at,
              cost_usd, tokens_in, or tokens_out. Unknown values silently fall
              back to last_activity_at.
            examples:
              - cost_usd
            default: last_activity_at
            title: Order By
          description: >-
            Column to sort by: last_activity_at, started_at, ended_at, cost_usd,
            tokens_in, or tokens_out. Unknown values silently fall back to
            last_activity_at.
        - name: descending
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: boolean
            description: Sort descending (newest/largest first).
            default: true
            title: Descending
          description: Sort descending (newest/largest first).
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key

````