# How to Analyse requests per minute and transactions per minute

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** ui\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016 "2020-08-31T20:55:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahulnama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016/1 "2020-08-31T20:55:10Z")

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**Kibana version** : 7.8.0

**Elasticsearch version** : 7.8.0

**APM Server version** : 7.8.0

Hi Team

I've installed APM and everything seems to be working fine. However, I'm unable to understand the number of requests per second for my application. Because it's continuously changing when I change time frame.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/d/3d18112137393e5fe3281fa84f01256d50182db2.png)

In the above screenshot time is set to last 24 hours and requests per minute says 2.3 rpm ? what does it mean ?

when i change it to last one hour rpm is 16.5. how is it calculated ?

Also, how to calculate exact number of requests for application in last one hour, and last 24 hours ?

Please explain.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![sqren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sqren/32/26110_2.png) [@sqren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sqren)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016/2 "2020-09-01T08:14:44Z")

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Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the confusion. The purpose of request/min (rpm) and transactions/min (tpm) is to show the average throughput (number of requests) over a period of time.

> [@rahulnama](#):
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> In the above screenshot time is set to last 24 hours and requests per minute says 2.3 rpm ? what does it mean ?

The value in legend is the average number of requests per minute for the selected time range. So in your case there was an average of 2.3 requests/min for 24 hours. This is calculated as `<total number of requests> / <duration>`. If we calculate backwards we can find the total number of requests as: `24 * 60 * 2.3` = 3312 requests

> [@rahulnama](#):
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> when i change it to last one hour rpm is 16.5. how is it calculated ?

Again, this is the average for the selected time range. So 990 requests occurred during the hour (60\*16.5).

I hope that answers your question. If not, don't hesitate to reach out again.

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**Author:** ![rahulnama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016/3 "2020-09-02T19:20:33Z")

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interesting @sqren

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016/4 "2020-09-23T15:20:45Z")

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