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title: Session Trace
description: Find a session, read its Session Trace, and open the full Conversation with an audit trail.
---

_[console.superalign.ai/sessions](https://console.superalign.ai/sessions)_

## Before you begin

- Session recording is on for at least one AI tool. See [AI Tools](/surface/hub/ai-tools/overview).
- You have the Admin or Auditor role. Members only see sessions from their own endpoints.

| Column | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Session ID** | A unique code. Hover to copy |
| **Source Asset** | The asset the session came from |
| **User** | The person the endpoint is enrolled to |
| **Account Used** | The account signed in to the AI asset, which can differ from the user, for example a personal account |
| **Tags** | Session tags from [Session Policies](/surface/policies/session-policies), colored by severity |
| **Est Cost** | Estimated cost in dollars |
| **Messages** | Number of messages |

Search prompts, users, or session IDs. Filter by **Source Asset** or **Hostname**.

## The Session Trace

Click a session. The **Session Trace** opens: a timeline of when the person spoke and when the AI made tool calls, **without** the message text.

The panel on the right shows:

- **Information**: models, estimated cost, message count, hostname, user, the account signed in to the asset and its plan, the session ID, and session tags. Each tag has a **View** link that scrolls to the matching turn. A session synced from [Cloud Agents](/surface/hub/cloud-agents) without its text shows **Content: Metadata only**.
- **Execution**: the MCP servers, skills, and tool calls the AI made, with call counts and a link to each one in Inventory.

## The Conversation

1. **Fetch the session**

    Click **Fetch Session** in the right panel, or press `S`.

2. **Confirm**

    The **Fetch session?** window shows the session ID and your own name, and says the action will be recorded in the Audit Log. Click **Fetch session**, or press `Enter`.

3. **Read**

    The full conversation opens, with **USER**, **ASSISTANT**, **SYSTEM**, and **TOOL** messages.

Every Conversation view is written to the [Audit Log](/surface/activity/audit-log). A Conversation cannot be reached by typing a web address; refreshing the page, or going back and forward, returns to the Session Trace. Leaving a Conversation asks you to confirm, because reading it again needs another **Fetch Session**.

## Sessions for one endpoint or one asset

- An endpoint's **Sessions** tab on [Endpoints](/surface/environment/endpoints) shows **Sessions**, **Tokens**, and **Est. Cost** for the last 7 days compared with the 7 before, and lists the endpoint's sessions.
- An asset's panel in [Inventory](/surface/overview/inventory) shows how many sessions came from it, with a link to the filtered list.

## Next steps

- [AI Usage](/surface/overview/ai-usage) for spend and top adopters
- [Session Policies](/surface/policies/session-policies) for where session tags come from
- [Audit Log](/surface/activity/audit-log) to see who opened which Conversation