# Marvel Dashboard meaning
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [June 4, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912 "2015-06-04T09:24:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ChrisMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrisMark)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912/1 "2015-06-04T09:24:45Z")
Hello everyone,
i was wondring what is the meaning of "search-request-rate" and "indexing-request-rate" graphs. Is it the rate that elasticsearch serves the requests or the rate of requests' arrival?
Thanx!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912/2 "2015-06-05T22:56:29Z")
It's the rate the requests come in.
And (on a high level) unless your cluster has issues causing threadpool backups, it should also be the same rate that they are served.
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### Author:  [@vangap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vangap)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912/3 "2015-06-11T09:57:53Z")
To be precise, I think indexing rate is the rate at which ES serves reqeusts, ES doesn't keep track of the incoming requests I think (atleast in node stats). Node stats contain the stat "Total documents indexed" .
I guess marvel calculates the indexing rate by doing d(Documents Indexed)/d(Time Interval)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-dashboard-meaning/1912/4 "2017-07-06T13:48:00Z")