---
title: "Get session"
method: GET
path: "/api/sessions/{session}"
tags: ["sessions"]
---

# Get session

`GET /api/sessions/{session}`

## Path parameters

- `session` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Session

- Session — A session
  - `id` string, uuid
  - `path` string — path to the session
  - `name` string — name of the session
  - `type` string — session type
  - `kernel` Kernel — Kernel information
    - `id` string, uuid, required — uuid of kernel
    - `name` string, required — kernel spec name
    - `last_activity` string — ISO 8601 timestamp for the last-seen activity on this kernel. Use this in combination with execution_state == 'idle' to identify which kernels have been idle since a given time. Timestamps will be UTC, indicated 'Z' suffix. Added in notebook server 5.0.
    - `connections` number — The number of active connections to this kernel.
    - `execution_state` string — Current execution state of the kernel (typically 'idle' or 'busy', but may be other values, such as 'starting'). Added in notebook server 5.0.

## Changes

> 2 revisions in range; 1 could not be searched.

- **2025-12-10** `e9ae9d653401` — 1 breaking, 1 warning
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - deleted the `path` request parameter `session`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/jupyter-server-api/changes/api/sessions/:session/get.md)

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