# Elasticsearch search response time / latency metrics

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-response-time-latency-metrics/323613
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-response-time-latency-metrics/323613 "2023-01-20T16:03:07Z")
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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-response-time-latency-metrics/323613/2 "2023-01-20T21:55:33Z")

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Perhaps take a look at this ...

> [@Exporting Elastic cloud cluster performance stats](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-elastic-cloud-cluster-performance-stats/265707/4):
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> Hi @kielni Thanks for the feedback I will pass that on, I agree. (Our self-manged offerings which I am not suggesting you change to have multiple ways to export the Elasticsearch metrics to the monitoring system of your choice, with respect to Cloud offering I think we are still working on it, strangely it takes a little more effort.) Now on to your other questions 1st) I would not try use the the metrics charts under Deployments / [deployment] / Performance, tl;dr they not as reliable as t…

Basically for example, average index latency would be the counter rate of index events divided by the counter rate of index time total.

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