# What is the definition of Client Requests in Stack Monitoring?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-definition-of-client-requests-in-stack-monitoring/284538>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [September 18, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-definition-of-client-requests-in-stack-monitoring/284538 "2021-09-18T08:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-definition-of-client-requests-in-stack-monitoring/284538/1 "2021-09-18T08:50:32Z")

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Hello.

Kibana metrics has item called **Client Requests**.

> **[Kibana Monitoring Metrics | Kibana Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kibana-page.html)**

Tooltip describes as below but I would like to know more in depth.  
From UX perspective, is it per elasticsearch query ?

> Total number client requests received by The kibana instances

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/4/440e56cdf7523723203b7b588413fa773450d737.png)

Best Regards,  
Yu Watanabe

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-definition-of-client-requests-in-stack-monitoring/284538/2 "2021-09-24T19:31:40Z")

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Yes, its the total number of client requests made to Kibana ( http/https )

1. To view Kibana instance metrics, click **Instances**.The Instances section shows the status of each Kibana instance.
2. Click the name of an instance to view its instance statistics over time.

If you enable monitoring across the Elastic Stack, each Elasticsearch node, Logstash node, Kibana instance, and Beat is considered unique based on its persistent UUID, which is written to the [`path.data`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/settings.html) directory when the node or instance starts.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-definition-of-client-requests-in-stack-monitoring/284538/3 "2021-10-22T19:32:11Z")

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