What Is the Difference Between QPS and the Number of Requests?

Queries Per Second (QPS) indicates the number of requests per second. For example, an HTTP GET request is also called a query. The number of requests is the total number of requests in a specific time range.

Queries Per Second (QPS) is the number of requests a server can handle per second.

QPS is used to measure the number of queries, or requests, per second.

For details about QPS on the Dashboard page, see Table 1.

**Table 1** QPS calculation
Time Range	Average QPS Description	Peak QPS Description
Yesterday or Today	The QPS curve is made with the average QPS in every minute.	The QPS curve is made with each peak QPS in every minute.
Past 3 days	The QPS curve is made with the average QPS in every five minutes.	The QPS curve is made with each peak QPS in every five minutes.
Past 7 days	The QPS curve is made with the maximum value among the average QPS in every five minutes at a 10-minute interval.	The QPS curve is made with each peak QPS in every 10 minutes.
Past 30 days	The QPS curve is made with the maximum value among the average QPS in every five minutes at a one-hour interval.	The QPS curve is made with the peak QPS in every hour.