# number of active users

**URL:** <https://community.gatling.io/t/number-of-active-users/1670>\
**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\
**Created:** [November 11, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/number-of-active-users/1670 "2014-11-11T14:31:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![47saikumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/a9a28c/32.png) [@47saikumar](https://community.gatling.io/u/47saikumar)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/number-of-active-users/1670/1 "2014-11-11T14:31:29Z")

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Hi,

I am new to gatling…can any one please explain the number of active sessions in the reports…And what is active sessions…and In that it contains concurrent users or simultaneous users???please explain with example…

And what is concurrent users???

And what is simultaneous users???

And how to calculate these users in gatling

Thnaks

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**Author:** ![Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pierre\_DAL-PRA](https://community.gatling.io/u/Pierre_DAL-PRA)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/number-of-active-users/1670/2 "2014-11-11T15:46:46Z")

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[http://gatling.io/docs/2.0.2/general/reports.html](http://gatling.io/docs/2.0.2/general/reports.html)

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**Author:** ![47saikumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/a9a28c/32.png) [@47saikumar](https://community.gatling.io/u/47saikumar)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/number-of-active-users/1670/3 "2014-11-12T05:41:18Z")

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Thanks…But please explain in detail with example…And I also want details about in that active sessions what are the types of users???will it take concurrent users or simultaneous users?why it is showing less number of active users even though if we give more number of users???