In plain English
It points to the latest moment a system or service detected a person, account, device, or other tracked entity. The value is recorded as a date and time.
In context
Here, "last seen" indicates the date and time that the device or access source was most recently observed by the system or service.
- Situation
- Checking sessions, devices, login history, and unusual access activity
- What it communicates
- labels when a device or access source was most recently recorded
Meaning limits
By itself, this term does not say why the entity was observed or what happened at that time.
Examples
“The account's last seen was 14 March at 09:26, but the record did not show what happened then.”
“When the service observed the tablet again, its last seen changed to 14 March at 09:26.”