diff --git a/addons/api/addon/models/target.js b/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
index dc997a97d..8924ffbb4 100644
--- a/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
+++ b/addons/api/addon/models/target.js
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ export default class TargetModel extends GeneratedTargetModel {
    * @type {SessionModel[]}
    */
   get sessions() {
-    return this.store.peekAll('session').filter(s => s.target_id === this.id);
+    return this.store.peekAll('session')
+      .filter(s => s && (s.target_id === this.id));
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/addons/core/translations/states/en-us.yaml b/addons/core/translations/states/en-us.yaml
index 1edb1e6ce..db8c30478 100644
--- a/addons/core/translations/states/en-us.yaml
+++ b/addons/core/translations/states/en-us.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+active: Active
 info: Info
 success: Success
 warning: Warning
diff --git a/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets.js b/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets.js
index e251e181a..a1563cceb 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets.js
+++ b/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets.js
@@ -2,8 +2,14 @@ import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
 import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
 import { all } from 'rsvp';
 import { action } from '@ember/object';
+import { task, timeout } from 'ember-concurrency';
+import { later } from '@ember/runloop';
+import config from '../../../../config/environment';
+
+const POLL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = config.sessionPollingTimeoutSeconds;
 
 export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsRoute extends Route {
+
   // =services
 
   @service ipc;
@@ -12,6 +18,25 @@ export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsRoute extends Route {
   @service notify;
   @service confirm;
 
+  // =attributes
+
+  /**
+   * A simple Ember Concurrency-based polling task that refreshes the route
+   * every POLL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS seconds.  This is necessary to display changes
+   * to session `status` that may occur.
+   *
+   * NOTE:  tasks are sort of attributes and sort of methods, but they are not
+   * language-level constructs.  Thus we annotate this task as if it
+   * is an attribute.
+   * @type {Task}
+   */
+  @task(function * () {
+    while(true) {
+      yield timeout(POLL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS * 1000);
+      yield this.refreshSessions();
+    }
+  }).drop() poller;
+
   // =methods
 
   /**
@@ -33,6 +58,7 @@ export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsRoute extends Route {
       )
     );
     let targets = projectTargets.map((target) => target.toArray()).flat();
+    await this.refreshSessions();
     return targets.map((target) => {
       return {
         target,
@@ -41,6 +67,35 @@ export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsRoute extends Route {
     });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Loads all sessions for all scopes in order to prime the store.
+   * Targets peek into the store to determine if they are active.
+   * TODO:  query only for sessions associated with the current user.
+   */
+  async refreshSessions() {
+    const projects = this.modelFor('scopes.scope.projects');
+    //const userId = this.session.data.authenticated.user_id;
+    await all(
+      projects.map(({ id: scope_id }) =>
+        this.store.query('session', { scope_id })
+      )
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * When this route is activated (entered), begin polling for changes.
+   */
+  activate() {
+    this.poller.perform();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * When this route is deactivated (exited), stop polling for changes.
+   */
+  deactivate() {
+    this.poller.cancelAll();
+  }
+
   // =actions
 
   /**
@@ -69,16 +124,18 @@ export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsRoute extends Route {
       // so we use store.push here.  In the future, it may make sense to push
       // this off to the API so that we don't have to manually persist the
       // proxy details.
-      this.store.push({
-        data: {
-          id: session_id,
-          type: 'session',
-          attributes: {
-            proxy_address: address,
-            proxy_port: port
+      later(() => {
+        this.store.push({
+          data: {
+            id: session_id,
+            type: 'session',
+            attributes: {
+              proxy_address: address,
+              proxy_port: port
+            }
           }
-        }
-      });
+        });
+      }, 150);
 
       // Show the user a modal with basic connection info.
       // We don't await because this modal is purely informational.
diff --git a/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.js b/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.js
index 8b448bd47..4f0281e2f 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.js
+++ b/ui/desktop/app/routes/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.js
@@ -3,16 +3,6 @@ import { action } from '@ember/object';
 import { notifySuccess, notifyError } from 'core/decorators/notify';
 
 export default class ScopesScopeProjectsTargetsTargetSessionsRoute extends Route {
-  // =methods
-
-  /**
-   * Loads all sessions for current target.
-   * @return {Promise{[SessionModel]}}
-   */
-  async model() {
-    return this.modelFor('scopes.scope.projects.targets.target').sessions;
-  }
-
   // =actions
 
   /**
diff --git a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/index.hbs b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/index.hbs
index b200db570..2651665a7 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/index.hbs
+++ b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/index.hbs
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@
       <table.body as |body|>
         {{#each @model as |model|}}
           <body.row as |row|>
-            <row.cell>
+            <row.headerCell>
+              <Rose::Icon
+                class={{concat "session-status-" (if model.target.isActive 'active' 'canceled')}}
+                @name="app-icons/action-session"
+                @size="medium"
+                title={{if model.target.isActive (t 'states.active')}}
+              />
               <LinkTo
                 @route="scopes.scope.projects.targets.target"
                 @model={{model.target.id}}
@@ -28,7 +34,7 @@
                 {{model.target.displayName}}
               </LinkTo>
               <p>{{model.target.description}}</p>
-            </row.cell>
+            </row.headerCell>
             <row.cell>
               <Copyable
                 @text={{model.target.id}}
diff --git a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/-header.hbs b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/-header.hbs
index fb4da6c13..8677dadd4 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/-header.hbs
+++ b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/-header.hbs
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 <h2>
   {{@model.target.displayName}}
+  {{#if @model.target.isActive}}
+    <Rose::Badge @style="success">
+      {{t "states.active"}}
+    </Rose::Badge>
+  {{/if}}
 </h2>
 <p>{{@model.target.description}}</p>
 <p>
@@ -10,4 +15,4 @@
   >
     <code>{{@model.target.id}}</code>
   </Copyable>
-</p>
\ No newline at end of file
+</p>
diff --git a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.hbs b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.hbs
index 8263162c9..48f10efda 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.hbs
+++ b/ui/desktop/app/templates/scopes/scope/projects/targets/target/sessions.hbs
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <Rose::Table as |table|>
   <table.body as |body|>
-    {{#each @model as |session|}}
+    {{!--
+      TODO:  sort these via the controller so that active and pending appear first
+      similar to the way the sessions routes are sorted.
+     --}}
+    {{#each @model.target.sessions as |session|}}
       <body.row as |row|>
         <row.cell class="nowrap">
           <Rose::Icon
diff --git a/ui/desktop/tests/acceptance/targets-test.js b/ui/desktop/tests/acceptance/targets-test.js
index 968b677d1..9d735dbb1 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/tests/acceptance/targets-test.js
+++ b/ui/desktop/tests/acceptance/targets-test.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   //getRootElement
   //setupOnerror,
 } from '@ember/test-helpers';
+import { run, later } from '@ember/runloop';
 import { setupApplicationTest } from 'ember-qunit';
 import setupMirage from 'ember-cli-mirage/test-support/setup-mirage';
 //import { Response } from 'miragejs';
@@ -151,8 +152,16 @@ module('Acceptance | targets', function (hooks) {
 
   test('visiting index', async function (assert) {
     assert.expect(1);
+    // This later/cancelTimers technique allows us to test a page with
+    // active polling.  Normally an acceptance test waits for all runloop timers
+    // to stop before returning from an awaited test, but polling means that
+    // runloop timers exist indefinitely.  We thus schedule a cancelation before
+    // proceeding with our tests.
+    later(async () => {
+      run.cancelTimers();
+      //await a11yAudit();
+      assert.equal(currentURL(), urls.targets);
+    }, 750);
     await visit(urls.targets);
-    //await a11yAudit();
-    assert.equal(currentURL(), urls.targets);
   });
 });