title: Rails + New Relic: What does RPM mean?
body: <p>I just started using New Relic RPM with my rails app, and one of the metrics they provide is "Throughput RPM". I have googled everywhere and thoroughly combed the New Relic docs, and I cannot find ANY written explanation of the RPM throughput metric.</p>
  
  <p>Is it "requests per minute" or "requests per millisecond" or something else? <em>*</em>* combustion engines and revolutions per minute make this impossible to find answers about in Google.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What is throughput RPM? Is a good number higher or lower, what are some average benchmarks, etc?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'd greatly appreciate an explanation of this metric, thanks!!</p>