---
title: stack kb user-session post-security-session-invalidate cli command
description: Invalidate user sessions Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4493/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/kb/user-session/post-security-session-invalidate
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack kb user-session post-security-session-invalidate cli command
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</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack kb user-session post-security-session-invalidate \
  --match <match> \
  [options]
```

Invalidate user sessions
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--match enum required">
    The method Kibana uses to determine which sessions to invalidate. If it is `all`, all existing sessions will be invalidated. If it is `query`, only the sessions that match the query will be invalidated.
    **Values:** all, query
  </definition>
  <definition term="--query string">
    The query that Kibana uses to match the sessions to invalidate when the `match` parameter is set to `query`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--no-validate">
    skip input validation and send the request as-is
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>