# View recent queries in the Athena console
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You can use the Athena console to see which queries succeeded or failed, and view error details for the queries that failed. Athena keeps a query history for 45 days. 

**To view recent queries in the Athena console**

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

1. Choose **Recent queries**. The **Recent queries** tab shows information about each query that ran.

1. To open a query statement in the query editor, choose the query's execution ID.  
![\[Choose the execution ID of a query to see it in the query editor.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/images/querying-view-query-statement.png)

1. To see the details for a query that failed, choose the **Failed** link for the query.  
![\[Choose the Failed link for a query to view information about the failure.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/images/querying-view-query-failure-details.png)