diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/db-console/src/views/cluster/containers/nodeGraphs/dashboards/sql.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/db-console/src/views/cluster/containers/nodeGraphs/dashboards/sql.tsx
index 3bc464c89a91..5626a46b01c0 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/db-console/src/views/cluster/containers/nodeGraphs/dashboards/sql.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/db-console/src/views/cluster/containers/nodeGraphs/dashboards/sql.tsx
@@ -196,17 +196,17 @@ export default function (props: GraphDashboardProps) {
       isKvGraph={false}
       sources={nodeSources}
       tenantSource={tenantSource}
-      tooltip={`The total number of full table/index scans ${tooltipSelection}.`}
+      tooltip={`The total number of full table/index scans per second ${tooltipSelection}.`}
       showMetricsInTooltip={true}
     >
-      <Axis label="full scans">
+      <Axis label="full scans per second">
         {_.map(nodeIDs, node => (
           <Metric
             key={node}
             name="cr.node.sql.full.scan.count"
             title={nodeDisplayName(nodeDisplayNameByID, node)}
             sources={[node]}
-            downsampleMax
+            nonNegativeRate
           />
         ))}
       </Axis>