# 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: ![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...

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Thanks!!

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