# Stack monitoring understanding

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-understanding/385140
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-understanding/385140 "2026-02-20T22:45:57Z")
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### Author: ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-understanding/385140/1 "2026-02-20T22:45:57Z")

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Hi, Community,

I am trying to understand this stack monitoring

one of my busy index’s advance monitoring show this

is this means total 888 search request came in and combine it tool 918.49ms ?

or is it just one search request took 918.49ms?

this index has five shard and total size is just 10gig at this time. this is yearly index and it grows to around 20-25gig per shard. then I create new index when new year starts. I just started collecting this data hence I don’t have much history.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/4/747823aea1028ca1d40b50d2ef068b56bafc1f9b.png)

In this second image I have almost every yearly index with same search rate. is this means it is used by wildcard like index-YYYY-\* which can hit all index is that correct?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/b/ab14833a22e44d388d6de90f2ff2cb4ccae26670.png)

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-understanding/385140/2 "2026-02-24T07:05:53Z")

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Hello @elasticforme

maybe below blog can help :

> [@The Request Rate makes me confused](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-request-rate-makes-me-confused/215909):
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> Hello, I' am using Kibana's stack monitoring tools, and I found something confusing me, that is, in the indices overview window, there is a line chart called "search rate" and in advance window, there is a line chart called "request rate" (The index shown here has 3 primary shards, 6 replica shards, no routing) We can see, those two charts has the same data, but different descriptions, which makes me confused. What does the "search total" in the request rate chart mean? O…

> **[Elasticsearch metrics | Elastic Docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/monitor/monitoring-data/elasticsearch-metrics)**
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> You can drill down into the status of your Elasticsearch cluster in Kibana by clicking the Overview, Nodes, Indices and Logs links on the Stack Monitoring...

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/d/3d8e6d2c32eb0d12e0e0c95943cbf10ea15cb7a9.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/b/2b8d1893335d492319f67a343afc3186bfe1e781.png)

Thanks!!