How to track login of users in a Java Spring Boot application

Question

The application is already configured via Spring Session to log user sessions into a SQL database. Now I would like to log the user sessions into my own database table for purposes of tracking user login data. What are some possible ways to do so?

What is "SQL database" and how is "my own database table " different? — Sheetal Mohan Sharma, May 04 '18 at 13:21
by SQL database i just meant to say a relational database. from my understanding when you use Spring session, it creates a SPRING_SESSION table in the database you specify in the configuration. I wanted to log data to a table that I create. — user1797298, May 04 '18 at 21:10

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '18 at 13:24

3

You can create a bean which implements ApplicationListener<>, for either AuthenticationSuccessEvent or InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent events.

See for further info:

answered May 04 '18 at 13:24

destan

4,301
3
35
62

Thank you Destan. – user1797298 May 07 '18 at 13:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '21 at 18:30

The original poster has likely moved on from this question, but others my find this tutorial useful as I did:

Keep Track of Logged In Users with Spring Security

Basically, it makes use of the HttpBindingSessionListener to keep track of a list of currently logged in users.

How to track login of users in a Java Spring Boot application

2 Answers2

Linked