Request rate is the number of requests that arrive, or are serviced, or leave, during some period. It’s surprisingly common for people to speak of a request rate without specifying what the length of the period is. I have even seen dashboards that don’t have a fixed period for the metrics query – the request rate becomes measured per whatever aggregation interval the dashboard deems appropriate for the window size at the time. If you zoom out, you get a higher request rate. If you move the windo...