# View Amazon CloudWatch Logs metrics for AWS Site-to-Site VPN
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When you create a Site-to-Site VPN connection, the VPN service sends metrics about your VPN connection to CloudWatch, as they become available. You can view the metrics for your VPN connection as follows.

**To view metrics using the CloudWatch console**

Metrics are grouped first by the service namespace, and then by the various dimension combinations within each namespace.

1. Open the CloudWatch console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Metrics**.

1. Under **All metrics**, choose the **VPN** metric namespace.

1. Select the metric dimension to view the metrics— for example, **VPN Tunnel Metrics**.

**Note**  
The VPN namespace will not appear in the CloudWatch console until after a Site-to-Site VPN connection has been created in the AWS region you are viewing.

**To view metrics using the AWS CLI**  
At a command prompt, use the following command:

```
aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace "AWS/VPN"
```