# \[Marvel\] What does the Search Rate mean?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [November 23, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260 "2015-11-23T03:59:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Leonard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Leonard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/1 "2015-11-23T03:59:11Z")
I am quite confused about this graph shown in marvel... 
Actually, I don't know which one the Search Rate refers to
(considering I have 5 shards, 1 replica, totally 10 shards saved on 2 machines)
if I triggered 100 SEARCH requests per second using RESRful API
what the search rate will be?
1. 100 / s (total search requests to the whole system)
2. 500 / s (sum up all the requests on every shards, I think every search request will need infos on every shard)
3. 1000 / s (case 2 with 1 replica?)
Anyone could help?
I am also confused on the Indexing Rate, Search Latency and Indexing Latency....
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/2 "2015-11-23T04:01:04Z")
It's the rate of search requests being executed against the cluster.
Index rate is the number of indexing requests being made against the cluster.
Search and indexing latencies; I am not sure exactly what that is.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Leonard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Leonard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/4 "2015-11-23T04:08:52Z")
If it refers to requests towards the cluster.
I've made a trivial test. I've riggered 50000 Random SEARCH requests, all completed in 300s. So the Search rate should be 166/s ?
The graph on marvel seems to show a far more larger value than 166/s....
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/5 "2015-11-23T04:11:58Z")
We're those requests spread over 300s, or you just issued them and they happened to finish in 300 s?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Leonard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Leonard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/7 "2015-11-23T04:16:55Z")
Pattern Like this:
Request, Get Response, Request, Get Response....
50000 x (Request, Get Response) takes 300s
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### Author:  [@FreeTymeKiyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FreeTymeKiyan)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/8 "2016-01-26T18:10:58Z")
I'd also like to know how Search Rate is calculated. Basically it's much higher than our actual QPS. I even saw negative numbers during deployment.
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### Author:  [@ronald.ploeger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ronald.ploeger)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/9 "2016-03-09T15:56:26Z")
Hi, we would also like to know how the search rate displayed by marvel is calculated. We see a search rate of about 1,700 - 1,800 per second in Marvel and measure just over 500 request per second fired from our apps towards our elastic cluster.
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### Author:  [@FreeTymeKiyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FreeTymeKiyan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/10 "2016-04-08T02:28:14Z")
Seems that nobody would give an answer.
I summarized from my experience that Search Rate is the lookups running per second multiplied by the number of shards.
And the Search Latency means the search latency within each shard.
I have [a brief write-up here](http://blog.kiyanpro.com/2016/04/15/elasticsearch/Marvel-What-Does-Search-Rate-Mean/). You may verify that with your index and mapping settings.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-what-does-the-search-rate-mean/35260/11 "2017-07-06T13:44:18Z")