--- title: Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command description: Laravel 13.39 adds a session:garbage-collect Artisan command that deletes expired database and file sessions on a schedule. Scheduling it hourly lets you set... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/delete-expired-sessions-in-laravel-with-a-scheduled-command-kqjeqyaqa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command | daily.dev og:description: Laravel 13.39 adds a session:garbage-collect Artisan command that deletes expired database and file sessions on a schedule. Scheduling it hourly lets you set... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/delete-expired-sessions-in-laravel-with-a-scheduled-command-kqjeqyaqa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KQjeQYaQa.png og:image:alt: Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Laravel 13.39 adds a session:garbage-collect Artisan command that deletes expired database and file sessions on a schedule. Scheduling it hourly lets you set lottery to [0, 100] in config/session.php, so no web request runs the cleanup. The database and file drivers need this cleanup; redis, memcached, dynamodb, apc and cookie drivers expire sessions on their own. For multi-server setups, add onOneServer() when using the database driver. Apps on Laravel 13.38 or earlier can replicate this with a scheduled closure calling the session handler's gc() method. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I delete expired sessions automatically in Laravel 13.39? Schedule the session:garbage-collect Artisan command, for example Schedule::command('session:garbage-collect')->hourly() in routes/console.php. It runs the same cleanup Laravel already triggers during some web requests but moves it off the request path. This only matters for the database and file session drivers; redis, memcached, dynamodb, apc, and cookie drivers expire sessions without any cleanup step. _Developers tuning Laravel session cleanup can track framework changes like this on daily.dev._ ### What does the session lottery setting do in Laravel's config/session.php? The lottery option, formatted as [2, 100] by default, sets the odds that a request starting a session will run expired-session cleanup before reaching your route, and that request waits for it to finish. At 1,000 requests a minute this triggers roughly 20 cleanups a minute regardless of need; at low traffic cleanup may run less than once a day. _Anyone tuning Laravel request latency can keep an eye on config changes like this via daily.dev._ ### How do I run Laravel session garbage collection on a version older than 13.39? On Laravel 13.38 and earlier, session:garbage-collect doesn't exist, so schedule a closure instead: Schedule::call(function () { app('session')->driver()->getHandler()->gc((int) config('session.lifetime') * 60); })->name('delete-expired-sessions')->hourly()->onOneServer(). This works on Laravel 11, 12, and 13, and a scheduled closure requires name() before onOneServer() or Laravel throws an exception. _Teams on older Laravel versions can follow framework compatibility fixes like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Scheduled Session Garbage Collection in Laravel 13.39](https://daily.dev/posts/scheduled-session-garbage-collection-in-laravel-13-39-skevw5rga) · Laravel News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Pruning Abandoned Carts](https://daily.dev/posts/pruning-abandoned-carts-gaa6lepzw) · Larablog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Laravel Task Scheduling & Automation: Simplify Cron Jobs with the Scheduler](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-task-scheduling-automation-simplify-cron-jobs-with-the-scheduler-nqdiov7wv) · DEV · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Storage Cache Store in Laravel 13.10.0](https://daily.dev/posts/storage-cache-store-in-laravel-13-10-0-r1lc1xf37) · Laravel News · 35 upvotes · 4 comments - [The Laravel Scheduler Under the Hood](https://daily.dev/posts/the-laravel-scheduler-under-the-hood-dgtbvlorx) · W endell Adriel · 5 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/delete-expired-sessions-in-laravel-with-a-scheduled-command-kqjeqyaqa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/delete-expired-sessions-in-laravel-with-a-scheduled-command-kqjeqyaqa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/delete-expired-sessions-in-laravel-with-a-scheduled-command-kqjeqyaqa"},"datePublished":"2026-10-30T13:40:43.665Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T13:41:11.229Z","description":"Laravel 13.39 adds a session:garbage-collect Artisan command that deletes expired database and file sessions on a schedule. 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