This value reports the actual observed traffic rate of the detected attack at the time it was flagged, letting an administrator compare it directly against the configured threshold to gauge how severely the limit was exceeded. Administrators use this to prioritize their incident response, since an attack rate far exceeding the threshold likely represents a more urgent situation than one barely crossing it. For example, this field might read a value like 15000 packets per second against a configured threshold of 5000, telling an admin the attack traffic is three times the alert threshold.