---
title: requests_per_second
description: requests_per_second can be set to any positive decimal number (1.4, 6, 1000, etc) and throttles the number of requests per second that the reindex issues...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_requests_per_second
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# requests_per_second
<note>
  This option is only used by the [Reindex action](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/curator/reindex)
</note>

```yaml
actions:
  1:
    description: "Reindex index1 into index2"
    action: reindex
    options:
      wait_interval: 9
      max_wait: -1
      requests_per_second: -1
      request_body:
        source:
          index: index1
        dest:
          index: index2
    filters:
    - filtertype: none
```

`requests_per_second` can be set to any positive decimal number (1.4, 6, 1000, etc) and throttles the number of requests per second that the reindex issues or it can be set to `-1` to disable throttling.
The default value for this is option is `-1`.