---
title: "Session"
description: "Learn about configuring session adapters for user profiles with unique identifiers and efficient usage guidelines. (Gitana 4.0)"
product: "Gitana"
version: "4.0"
url: "/documentation/gitana/4.0/developers/app-server/authentication/adapters/session"
---

# Session

The session adapter checks the session to find user profile information.

## Configuration

Here are all of the properties that may be configured:

```
{
    "adapters": {
        "{adapterId}": {
            "type": "session"
        }
    }
}
```

The value `{adapterId}` can be any unique ID across the adapters. This is the ID that you reference from within your strategy configuration.

## Usage

To grab authenticated user profile from the session, you might do:

```
{
    "adapters": {
        "{adapterId}": {
            "type": "session"
        }
    }
}
```