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title: Managing PingGateway sessions
description: Configure PingGateway sessions, including in-memory and JWT-based session management
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# Managing PingGateway sessions

Learn about PingGateway sessions in [PingGateway sessions](../about/about-sessions.html).

Change PingGateway session configurations using the `"session"` in the [AdminHttpApplication (`admin.json`)](../reference/AdminHttpApplication.html) for administrative requests and the [GatewayHttpApplication (`config.json` )](../reference/GatewayHttpApplication.html) or individual [Route](../reference/Route.html) for other requests:

* Change the default in-memory session settings by configuring an [InMemorySessionManager](../reference/InMemorySessionManager.html).

* Switch to JWT-based sessions by configuring a [JwtSessionManager](../reference/JwtSessionManager.html).