# How to understand search/index rate in kibana?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-search-index-rate-in-kibana/171585
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 9, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-search-index-rate-in-kibana/171585 "2019-03-09T08:27:46Z")
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### Author: ![luxiaoxun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@luxiaoxun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luxiaoxun)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-search-index-rate-in-kibana/171585/1 "2019-03-09T08:27:46Z")

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Hi  
I am using kibana to monitor ES cluster. From kibana, it shows search rate is 2000/s, indexing rate is 10000/s (total shards), how to understand these 2 numbers?  
If indexing rate is 10000/s (total shards), does it means that ES is indexing 10000 docs per second(including replica)?  
Thanks.

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### Author: ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-search-index-rate-in-kibana/171585/2 "2019-03-11T22:06:56Z")

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I assume you're talking about the monitoring app. The numbers you see should just be the raw Elasticsearch metrics, but I'm told they do not include replica counts, otherwise you'd end up doubling (or more) the actual values.

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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: [April 8, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-search-index-rate-in-kibana/171585/3 "2019-04-08T22:08:29Z")

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