# Enable CloudWatch query metrics in Athena
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When you create a workgroup in the console, the setting for publishing query metrics to CloudWatch is selected by default.

**To enable or disable query metrics in the Athena console for a workgroup**

1. Open the Athena console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena/home).

1. If the console navigation pane is not visible, choose the expansion menu on the left.  
![\[Choose the expansion menu.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/images/nav-pane-expansion.png)

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

1. Choose the link of the workgroup that you want to modify.

1. On the details page for the workgroup, choose **Edit**.

1. In the **Settings** section, select or clear **Publish query metrics to AWS CloudWatch**.

If you use API operations, the command line interface, or the client application with the JDBC driver to create workgroups, to enable publishing of query metrics, set `PublishCloudWatchMetricsEnabled` to `true` in [WorkGroupConfiguration](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/APIReference/API_WorkGroupConfiguration.html). The following example shows only the metrics configuration and omits other configuration:

```
"WorkGroupConfiguration": { 
      "PublishCloudWatchMetricsEnabled": "true"
     ....
     }
```