VPN Status Page

From the Organization Tab

From the Security & SD-WAN Tab

Usage Graph

The Usage graph shows the throughput of the VPN over a given time period. The graph will dynamically scale depending on the total amount of throughput within the time period. Use this graph to monitor the throughput of your site-to-site VPN connections.

Latency Graph

The Latency graph shows the latency in a 50th Percentile, 90th Percentile, or a Histogram View. In the Histogram view, hovering over a box will give you details for that time period. The 50% option shows the median round-trip time for pings used to monitor the site-to-site VPN connection. The 90% option will show you the results of the top 10% of pings.

Typically, use the 50% option to view the average, the 90% option to view spikes in latency over the time period, and the histogram view to get detailed data for a specific time within the time period. When there are network problems (like poor voice quality) that can be related to latency, the 90% or histogram views will help troubleshoot whether those events correlate to VPN latency issues. 

Ring View Graph

The ring view visually represents the total percentage of traffic distribution between Meraki Auto VPN peers. Each band or "slice" of color on the outer ring represents a WAN Appliance or Teleworker gateway device deployed at a given site. The band width is based on the amount of VPN traffic to or from that site. Wide segments indicate WAN appliance networks that send and receive larger amounts of VPN traffic than thinner segments.

In the example below, we can quickly see that the WAN appliance highlighted below has a high amount of VPN peer density (it’s connected to multiple WAN appliances at other sites), and is one of the major hubs for VPN traffic.  

Networks List

The Networks list provides the detailed information for Meraki Auto VPN peers and non-Meraki VPN peers.

Information columns can be added or removed using the " + " icon on the top right of the Networks list. To view how a specific peer relates to the rest of the configured peers, hover the mouse cursor over the desired peer in the list. This will highlight the graphs at the top of the page.

• Under the site-to-site peers tab, the following information is available:

  • Status - Details on the Meraki VPN status for the selected peer.

    • Red - Peer is unreachable.

    • Yellow - Some peers are unreachable.

    • Green - All peers are reachable.

  • Description - The description of the Meraki or non-Meraki VPN peer.

  • Usage - The amount of traffic to and from that Meraki VPN peer.

  • Latency - Round-trip time latency between the WAN appliance and the remote peers.

    • There are 3 column choices for this - Average, 50%, and 90%.

• Under the exported subnets tab, the following information is available:

  • Name - Name of the subnets capable of being exported.

  • Yes/No - Indicator if the subnet is currently being exported into the VPN.

  • Subnet - CIDR notation of the subnet.

  • Router IP - This is either the IP address used by the WAN appliance's VLAN interface for that subnet, or the "next hop" IP address configured for a static route. Both of these options are configured on the Security & SD-WAN > Configure > Addressing & VLANs page. More information on the Addressing & VLANs page can be found here.

• On the non-Meraki peers tab, the following information is available:

  • Status - whether the peer is currently reachable or not.

  • Name - Name of the non-Meraki peer configured on the Security & SD-WAN > Configure > Site-to-Site VPN page.

  • Public IP - Pubic IP configured for the non-Meraki VPN peer.

  • Subnets - All subnets configured under the "Remote Subnets" field on the Security & SD-WAN > Configure > Site-to-Site VPN page.

To view additional information and statistics about the connection to a VPN peer, click the relevant row in the Networks List. For more information on this feature, refer to the SD-WAN Monitoring page.