# How to calculate Search requests per seconds
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021 "2020-03-25T16:19:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021/1 "2020-03-25T16:19:07Z")
Hi,
is there a way to calculate the whole value of Search requests per seconds?
I would like to get it referred to the entire cluster and not only for a specific index.
the same question is also for response time.
thanks
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021/2 "2020-03-25T19:15:19Z")
I believe that monitoring does that out of the box.
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021/3 "2020-03-25T21:59:48Z")
Sure, but I would like to know if that is possible using any API method
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021/4 "2020-03-25T22:17:26Z")
May be this? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-stats.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-stats.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-search-requests-per-seconds/225021/5 "2020-04-22T22:18:24Z")
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