---
title: Signout
description: End a user session by signing out.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/api/signout/
estimated_tokens: 2221
product: InfluxDB OSS v2
version: v2
---

[Download InfluxDB API Spec](/openapi/influxdb-oss-v2-api.yml)

End a user session by signing out.

POST `/api/v2/signout`

### Expire a user session

Expires a user session specified by a session cookie.

Use this endpoint to expire a user session that was generated when the user authenticated with the InfluxDB Developer Console (UI) or the `POST /api/v2/signin` endpoint.

For example, the `POST /api/v2/signout` endpoint represents the third step in the following three-step process to authenticate a user, retrieve the `user` resource, and then expire the session:

1. Send a request with the user’s [Basic authentication credentials](#section/Authentication/BasicAuthentication) to the `POST /api/v2/signin` endpoint to create a user session and generate a session cookie.
2. Send a request to the `GET /api/v2/me` endpoint, passing the stored session cookie from step 1 to retrieve user information.
3. Send a request to the `POST /api/v2/signout` endpoint, passing the stored session cookie to expire the session.

*See the complete example in request samples.*

InfluxDB stores user sessions in memory only. If a user doesn’t sign out, then the user session automatically expires within ten minutes or during a restart of the InfluxDB instance.

To learn more about cookies in HTTP requests, see [Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs, HTTP cookies](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies).

#### Related endpoints

-   [Signin](#tag/Signin)

#### Parameters

##### Header parameters

`Zap-Trace-Span` string

OpenTracing span context

Example request [Ask AI about this](#)

```sh
curl --request POST \
  "http://localhost:8086/api/v2/signout" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer INFLUX_TOKEN"
```

#### Responses

204 Success. The session is expired.

401 Unauthorized.

`code` required string

code is the machine-readable error code.

Allowed: `internal error` , `not implemented` , `not found` , `conflict` , `invalid` , `unprocessable entity` , `empty value` , `unavailable` , `forbidden` , `too many requests` , `unauthorized` , `method not allowed` , `request too large` , `unsupported media type`

`err` string

Stack of errors that occurred during processing of the request. Useful for debugging.

`message` string

Human-readable message.

`op` string

Describes the logical code operation when the error occurred. Useful for debugging.

default The session expiry is unsuccessful.

`code` required string

code is the machine-readable error code.

Allowed: `internal error` , `not implemented` , `not found` , `conflict` , `invalid` , `unprocessable entity` , `empty value` , `unavailable` , `forbidden` , `too many requests` , `unauthorized` , `method not allowed` , `request too large` , `unsupported media type`

`err` string

Stack of errors that occurred during processing of the request. Useful for debugging.

`message` string

Human-readable message.

`op` string

Describes the logical code operation when the error occurred. Useful for debugging.