diff --git a/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/GerritServer.java b/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/GerritServer.java
index 3d7d9a7..986f549 100644
--- a/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/GerritServer.java
+++ b/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/GerritServer.java
@@ -589,6 +589,10 @@
     return testInjector;
   }
 
+  public Injector getHttpdInjector() {
+    return daemon.getHttpdInjector();
+  }
+
   Description getDescription() {
     return desc;
   }
diff --git a/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/GitOverHttpServlet.java b/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/GitOverHttpServlet.java
index 03b20e0..6e22704 100644
--- a/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/GitOverHttpServlet.java
+++ b/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/GitOverHttpServlet.java
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@
     private final Metrics metrics;
     private final PluginSetContext<RequestListener> requestListeners;
     private final UsersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook usersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook;
+    private final Provider<WebSession> sessionProvider;
 
     @Inject
     UploadFilter(
@@ -369,7 +370,8 @@
         GroupAuditService groupAuditService,
         Metrics metrics,
         PluginSetContext<RequestListener> requestListeners,
-        UsersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook usersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook) {
+        UsersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook usersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook,
+        Provider<WebSession> sessionProvider) {
       this.uploadValidatorsFactory = uploadValidatorsFactory;
       this.permissionBackend = permissionBackend;
       this.userProvider = userProvider;
@@ -377,6 +379,7 @@
       this.metrics = metrics;
       this.requestListeners = requestListeners;
       this.usersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook = usersSelfAdvertiseRefsHook;
+      this.sessionProvider = sessionProvider;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -392,7 +395,7 @@
       HttpServletResponseWithStatusWrapper responseWrapper =
           new HttpServletResponseWithStatusWrapper((HttpServletResponse) response);
       HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
-      String sessionId = httpRequest.getSession().getId();
+      String sessionId = getSessionIdOrNull(sessionProvider);
 
       try (TraceContext traceContext = TraceContext.open()) {
         RequestInfo requestInfo =
@@ -495,6 +498,7 @@
     private final Provider<CurrentUser> userProvider;
     private final GroupAuditService groupAuditService;
     private final Metrics metrics;
+    private final Provider<WebSession> sessionProvider;
 
     @Inject
     ReceiveFilter(
@@ -502,12 +506,14 @@
         PermissionBackend permissionBackend,
         Provider<CurrentUser> userProvider,
         GroupAuditService groupAuditService,
-        Metrics metrics) {
+        Metrics metrics,
+        Provider<WebSession> sessionProvider) {
       this.cache = cache;
       this.permissionBackend = permissionBackend;
       this.userProvider = userProvider;
       this.groupAuditService = groupAuditService;
       this.metrics = metrics;
+      this.sessionProvider = sessionProvider;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -547,7 +553,7 @@
       } finally {
         groupAuditService.dispatch(
             new HttpAuditEvent(
-                httpRequest.getSession().getId(),
+                getSessionIdOrNull(sessionProvider),
                 userProvider.get(),
                 extractWhat(httpRequest),
                 TimeUtil.nowMs(),
@@ -603,4 +609,12 @@
     @Override
     public void destroy() {}
   }
+
+  private static String getSessionIdOrNull(Provider<WebSession> sessionProvider) {
+    WebSession session = sessionProvider.get();
+    if (session.isSignedIn()) {
+      return session.getSessionId();
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/Daemon.java b/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/Daemon.java
index 10f5ba3..0eaf75d 100644
--- a/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/Daemon.java
+++ b/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/Daemon.java
@@ -236,6 +236,11 @@
     this.replica = replica;
   }
 
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public Injector getHttpdInjector() {
+    return httpdInjector;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public int run() throws Exception {
     if (stopOnly) {
diff --git a/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/http/jetty/JettyServer.java b/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/http/jetty/JettyServer.java
index b59dfc9..89b4228 100644
--- a/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/http/jetty/JettyServer.java
+++ b/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/http/jetty/JettyServer.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS;
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 import com.google.gerrit.extensions.client.AuthType;
 import com.google.gerrit.extensions.events.LifecycleListener;
@@ -42,8 +43,11 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 import javax.servlet.DispatcherType;
 import javax.servlet.Filter;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpScheme;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.io.ConnectionStatistics;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.jmx.MBeanContainer;
@@ -200,6 +204,8 @@
   private final Metrics metrics;
   private boolean reverseProxy;
   private ConnectionStatistics connStats;
+  private final SessionHandler sessionHandler;
+  private final AtomicLong sessionsCounter;
 
   @Inject
   JettyServer(
@@ -218,8 +224,27 @@
       connector.addBean(connStats);
     }
     metrics = new Metrics(pool, connStats);
+    sessionHandler = new SessionHandler();
+    sessionsCounter = new AtomicLong();
 
-    Handler app = makeContext(env, cfg);
+    /* Code used for testing purposes for making assertions
+     * on the number of active HTTP sessions.
+     */
+    sessionHandler.addEventListener(
+        new HttpSessionListener() {
+
+          @Override
+          public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent se) {
+            sessionsCounter.decrementAndGet();
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent se) {
+            sessionsCounter.incrementAndGet();
+          }
+        });
+
+    Handler app = makeContext(env, cfg, sessionHandler);
     if (cfg.getBoolean("httpd", "requestLog", !reverseProxy)) {
       RequestLogHandler handler = new RequestLogHandler();
       handler.setRequestLog(httpLogFactory.get());
@@ -246,6 +271,11 @@
     httpd.setStopAtShutdown(false);
   }
 
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public long numActiveSessions() {
+    return sessionsCounter.longValue();
+  }
+
   Metrics getMetrics() {
     return metrics;
   }
@@ -445,7 +475,7 @@
     return pool;
   }
 
-  private Handler makeContext(JettyEnv env, Config cfg) {
+  private Handler makeContext(JettyEnv env, Config cfg, SessionHandler sessionHandler) {
     final Set<String> paths = new HashSet<>();
     for (URI u : listenURLs(cfg)) {
       String p = u.getPath();
@@ -460,7 +490,7 @@
 
     final List<ContextHandler> all = new ArrayList<>();
     for (String path : paths) {
-      all.add(makeContext(path, env, cfg));
+      all.add(makeContext(path, env, cfg, sessionHandler));
     }
 
     if (all.size() == 1) {
@@ -478,13 +508,14 @@
     return r;
   }
 
-  private ContextHandler makeContext(final String contextPath, JettyEnv env, Config cfg) {
+  private ContextHandler makeContext(
+      final String contextPath, JettyEnv env, Config cfg, SessionHandler sessionHandler) {
     final ServletContextHandler app = new ServletContextHandler();
 
     // This enables the use of sessions in Jetty, feature available
     // for Gerrit plug-ins to enable user-level sessions.
     //
-    app.setSessionHandler(new SessionHandler());
+    app.setSessionHandler(sessionHandler);
     app.setErrorHandler(new HiddenErrorHandler());
 
     // This is the path we are accessed by clients within our domain.
diff --git a/javatests/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/AbstractGitOverHttpServlet.java b/javatests/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/AbstractGitOverHttpServlet.java
index fe1c264..35f8270 100644
--- a/javatests/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/AbstractGitOverHttpServlet.java
+++ b/javatests/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/git/AbstractGitOverHttpServlet.java
@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.gerrit.acceptance.FakeGroupAuditService;
 import com.google.gerrit.acceptance.Sandboxed;
-import com.google.gerrit.server.AnonymousUser;
+import com.google.gerrit.entities.Account;
+import com.google.gerrit.pgm.http.jetty.JettyServer;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.audit.HttpAuditEvent;
 import com.google.inject.Inject;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.junit.TestRepository;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialsProvider;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.RefSpec;
@@ -33,9 +37,11 @@
 
 public class AbstractGitOverHttpServlet extends AbstractPushForReview {
   @Inject protected FakeGroupAuditService auditService;
+  private JettyServer jettyServer;
 
   @Before
   public void beforeEach() throws Exception {
+    jettyServer = server.getHttpdInjector().getInstance(JettyServer.class);
     CredentialsProvider.setDefault(
         new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider(admin.username(), admin.httpPassword()));
     selectProtocol(AbstractPushForReview.Protocol.HTTP);
@@ -67,33 +73,54 @@
     assertThat(receivePack.what).endsWith("/git-receive-pack");
     assertThat(receivePack.params).isEmpty();
     assertThat(receivePack.httpStatus).isEqualTo(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
+    assertThat(jettyServer.numActiveSessions()).isEqualTo(0);
   }
 
   @Test
-  @Sandboxed
-  public void uploadPackAuditEventLog() throws Exception {
+  public void anonymousUploadPackAuditEventLog() throws Exception {
+    uploadPackAuditEventLog(Constants.DEFAULT_REMOTE_NAME, Optional.empty());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void authenticatedUploadPackAuditEventLog() throws Exception {
+    String remote = "authenticated";
+    Config cfg = testRepo.git().getRepository().getConfig();
+
+    String uri = admin.getHttpUrl(server) + "/a/" + project.get();
+    cfg.setString("remote", remote, "url", uri);
+    cfg.setString("remote", remote, "fetch", "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*");
+
+    uploadPackAuditEventLog(remote, Optional.of(admin.id()));
+  }
+
+  private void uploadPackAuditEventLog(String remote, Optional<Account.Id> accountId)
+      throws Exception {
     auditService.drainHttpAuditEvents();
     // testRepo is already a clone. Make a server-side change so we have something to fetch.
     try (Repository repo = repoManager.openRepository(project);
         TestRepository<?> testRepo = new TestRepository<>(repo)) {
       testRepo.branch("master").commit().create();
     }
-    testRepo.git().fetch().call();
+    testRepo.git().fetch().setRemote(remote).call();
 
     ImmutableList<HttpAuditEvent> auditEvents = auditService.drainHttpAuditEvents();
     assertThat(auditEvents).hasSize(2);
 
     HttpAuditEvent lsRemote = auditEvents.get(0);
-    // Repo URL doesn't include /a, so fetching doesn't cause authentication.
-    assertThat(lsRemote.who).isInstanceOf(AnonymousUser.class);
+    assertThat(lsRemote.who.toString())
+        .isEqualTo(
+            accountId.map(id -> "IdentifiedUser[account " + id.get() + "]").orElse("ANONYMOUS"));
     assertThat(lsRemote.what).endsWith("/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack");
     assertThat(lsRemote.params).containsExactly("service", "git-upload-pack");
     assertThat(lsRemote.httpStatus).isEqualTo(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
 
     HttpAuditEvent uploadPack = auditEvents.get(1);
-    assertThat(lsRemote.who).isInstanceOf(AnonymousUser.class);
+    assertThat(uploadPack.who.toString())
+        .isEqualTo(
+            accountId.map(id -> "IdentifiedUser[account " + id.get() + "]").orElse("ANONYMOUS"));
     assertThat(uploadPack.what).endsWith("/git-upload-pack");
     assertThat(uploadPack.params).isEmpty();
     assertThat(uploadPack.httpStatus).isEqualTo(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
+    assertThat(jettyServer.numActiveSessions()).isEqualTo(0);
   }
 }