diff --git a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/config.yaml b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/config.yaml
index ea8d557bb4..e8cb6eeb5f 100644
--- a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/config.yaml
+++ b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/config.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 {{$benchmarkReplicas := DefaultParam .CL2_BENCHMARK_PODS 1}}
 
 {{$inflight := DefaultParam .CL2_BENCHMARK_INFLIGHT 10}}
+{{$qps := DefaultParam .CL2_BENCHMARK_QPS -1}}
 {{$uri := DefaultParam .CL2_BENCHMARK_URI ""}} # URI example: /api/v1/namespaces/%namespace%/pods
 
 name: Request benchmark
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ namespace:
 tuningSets:
 - name: Sequence
   parallelismLimitedLoad:
-    parallelismLimit: 1
+    parallelismLimit: 10
 steps:
 - name: Setup permissions
   phases:
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ steps:
     objectBundle:
     - basename: {{$configMapGroup}}
       objectTemplatePath: configmap.yaml
-      params:
+      templateFillMap:
         bytes: {{$configMapBytes}}
         group: {{$configMapGroup}}
 - module:
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ steps:
       replicas: {{$benchmarkReplicas}}
       inflight: {{$inflight}}
       uri: {{$uri}}
+      qps: {{$qps}}
 - module:
     path: modules/measurements.yaml
     params:
diff --git a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/configmap.yaml b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/configmap.yaml
index 4c4a223ab9..6e0582cb9d 100644
--- a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/configmap.yaml
+++ b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/configmap.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{{$bytes := DefaultParam .bytes 0}}
+{{$bytes := .bytes}}
 {{$group := DefaultParam .group .Name}}
 
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ metadata:
   labels:
     group: {{$group}}
 data:
-  key: "{{range $i := Loop $bytes}}{{RandIntRange 0 9}}{{end}}"
+  key: "{{RandData $bytes}}"
diff --git a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/deployment.yaml b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/deployment.yaml
index a688d9cdca..fb90715002 100644
--- a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/deployment.yaml
+++ b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/deployment.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ spec:
         - --inflight={{.Inflight}}
         - --namespace={{.Namespace}}
         - --uri={{.Uri}}
+        - --qps={{.QPS}}
         resources:
           requests:
             cpu: {{$cpu}}
diff --git a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/benchmark-deployment.yaml b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/benchmark-deployment.yaml
index afbdccc23d..16bfd209e3 100644
--- a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/benchmark-deployment.yaml
+++ b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/benchmark-deployment.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {{$replicas := DefaultParam .replicas 0}}
 {{$inflight := DefaultParam .inflight 0}}
 {{$uri := DefaultParam .uri "/"}}
+{{$qps := DefaultParam .qps -1}}
 
 steps:
 - name: Creating WaitForControlledPodsRunning measurement
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ steps:
         Replicas: {{$replicas}}
         Inflight: {{$inflight}}
         Uri: {{$uri}}
+        QPS: {{$qps}}
 - name: Waiting for WaitForControlledPodsRunning gather
   measurements:
   - Identifier: WaitForBenchmarkDeployment
diff --git a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/measurements.yaml b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/measurements.yaml
index 569879f85e..3a0d57518a 100644
--- a/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/measurements.yaml
+++ b/clusterloader2/testing/request-benchmark/modules/measurements.yaml
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ steps:
         duration: 1m
 - name: "Starting measurement - {{.name}}"
   measurements:
+  - Identifier: APIResponsivenessPrometheusSimple
+    Method: APIResponsivenessPrometheus
+    Params:
+      action: start
+      enableViolations: false
+      useSimpleLatencyQuery: true
   - Identifier: ContainerCPU-{{.name}}
     Method: GenericPrometheusQuery
     Params:
@@ -49,3 +55,9 @@ steps:
         query: quantile_over_time(0.90, sum by (container) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[1m]))[%v:])
       - name: Perc50
         query: quantile_over_time(0.50, sum by (container) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[1m]))[%v:])
+  - Identifier: APIResponsivenessPrometheusSimple
+    Method: APIResponsivenessPrometheus
+    Params:
+      action: gather
+      enableViolations: false
+      useSimpleLatencyQuery: true
diff --git a/util-images/request-benchmark/Makefile b/util-images/request-benchmark/Makefile
index a8a95c61ba..6995d684ac 100644
--- a/util-images/request-benchmark/Makefile
+++ b/util-images/request-benchmark/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PROJECT ?= k8s-testimages
 IMG = gcr.io/$(PROJECT)/perf-tests-util/request-benchmark
-TAG = v0.0.5
+TAG = v0.0.6
 
 all: build push
 
diff --git a/util-images/request-benchmark/client.go b/util-images/request-benchmark/client.go
index cbb45765f7..ff012dc77f 100644
--- a/util-images/request-benchmark/client.go
+++ b/util-images/request-benchmark/client.go
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ func (c *Client) TimedRequest(ctx context.Context, request *rest.Request) Respon
 	}
 }
 
-func GetClient() (*Client, error) {
+func GetClient(qps float32) (*Client, error) {
 	config, err := getConfig()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	config.QPS = -1 // Disable rate limiter
+	config.QPS = qps
+	config.Burst = 10
 
 	client, err := kubernetes.NewForConfig(config)
 	return (*Client)(client), err
diff --git a/util-images/request-benchmark/main.go b/util-images/request-benchmark/main.go
index ed07fa9427..ee297e2c0d 100644
--- a/util-images/request-benchmark/main.go
+++ b/util-images/request-benchmark/main.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ var (
 	namespace = flag.String("namespace", "", "Replace %namespace% in URI with provided namespace")
 	URI       = flag.String("uri", "", "Request URI")
 	verb      = flag.String("verb", "GET", "A verb to be used in requests.")
+	qps       = flag.Float64("qps", -1, "The qps limit for all requests")
 )
 
 func init() {
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ func init() {
 }
 
 func main() {
-	client, err := GetClient()
+	client, err := GetClient(float32(*qps))
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}