# Understanding Search Rate
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-search-rate/124070
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-search-rate/124070 "2018-03-15T10:19:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Hora](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Hora)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-search-rate/124070/1 "2018-03-15T10:19:41Z")
Hi,
I have roll over indexes, with retention duration of 7 days.
Sessions-2018-03-15
Sessions-2018-03-14
......
I can see search rate of 213/sec consistent across all session indexes. We have alias that points to these all roll over indexes.
But in some cases on Kibana the index with document count 0 , shows index rate of 213/sec
Can someone explain what is this actual search rate. Yes there is possibility that there is a script running in our cluster and using the alias.
Is it like even if the documents count is 0 still that many search request are hitting shards of that particular index
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### Author:  [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-search-rate/124070/2 "2018-03-15T12:14:12Z")
This is really an Elasticsearch question, so for a definitive answer I would suggest asking this question in the Elasticsearch forum.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-search-rate/124070/3 "2018-04-12T12:18:05Z")
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