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Date Range Aggregation

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Date Range Aggregation

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A range aggregation that is dedicated for date values. The main difference between this aggregation and the normal range aggregation is that the from and to values can be expressed in Date Math expressions, and it is also possible to specify a date format by which the from and to response fields will be returned. Note that this aggregation includes the from value and excludes the to value for each range.

Example:

POST /sales/_search?size=0
{
    "aggs": {
        "range": {
            "date_range": {
                "field": "date",
                "format": "MM-yyy",
                "ranges": [
                    { "to": "now-10M/M" }, 
                    { "from": "now-10M/M" } 
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

	< now minus 10 months, rounded down to the start of the month.
	>= now minus 10 months, rounded down to the start of the month.

In the example above, we created two range buckets, the first will "bucket" all documents dated prior to 10 months ago and the second will "bucket" all documents dated since 10 months ago

Response:

{
    ...
    "aggregations": {
        "range": {
            "buckets": [
                {
                    "to": 1.4436576E12,
                    "to_as_string": "10-2015",
                    "doc_count": 7,
                    "key": "*-10-2015"
                },
                {
                    "from": 1.4436576E12,
                    "from_as_string": "10-2015",
                    "doc_count": 0,
                    "key": "10-2015-*"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

Missing Values

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The missing parameter defines how documents that are missing a value should be treated. By default they will be ignored but it is also possible to treat them as if they had a value. This is done by adding a set of fieldname : value mappings to specify default values per field.

POST /sales/_search?size=0
{
   "aggs": {
       "range": {
           "date_range": {
               "field": "date",
               "missing": "1976/11/30",
               "ranges": [
                  {
                    "key": "Older",
                    "to": "2016/02/01"
                  }, 
                  {
                    "key": "Newer",
                    "from": "2016/02/01",
                    "to" : "now/d"
                  }
              ]
          }
      }
   }
}

Documents without a value in the date field will be added to the "Older" bucket, as if they had a date value of "1899-12-31".

Date Format/Pattern

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this information was copied from JodaDate

All ASCII letters are reserved as format pattern letters, which are defined as follows:

Symbol	Meaning	Presentation	Examples
G	era	text	AD
C	century of era (>=0)	number	20
Y	year of era (>=0)	year	1996
x	weekyear	year	1996
w	week of weekyear	number	27
e	day of week	number	2
E	day of week	text	Tuesday; Tue
y	year	year	1996
D	day of year	number	189
M	month of year	month	July; Jul; 07
d	day of month	number	10
a	halfday of day	text	PM
K	hour of halfday (0~11)	number	0
h	clockhour of halfday (1~12)	number	12
H	hour of day (0~23)	number	0
k	clockhour of day (1~24)	number	24
m	minute of hour	number	30
s	second of minute	number	55
S	fraction of second	number	978
z	time zone	text	Pacific Standard Time; PST
Z	time zone offset/id	zone	-0800; -08:00; America/Los_Angeles
'	escape for text	delimiter	''

The count of pattern letters determine the format.

Text: If the number of pattern letters is 4 or more, the full form is used; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if available.
Number: The minimum number of digits. Shorter numbers are zero-padded to this amount.
Year: Numeric presentation for year and weekyear fields are handled specially. For example, if the count of y is 2, the year will be displayed as the zero-based year of the century, which is two digits.
Month: 3 or over, use text, otherwise use number.
Zone: Z outputs offset without a colon, ZZ outputs the offset with a colon, ZZZ or more outputs the zone id.
Zone names: Time zone names (z) cannot be parsed.

Any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges of [a..z] and [A..Z] will be treated as quoted text. For instance, characters like :, ., ' , '# and ? will appear in the resulting time text even they are not embraced within single quotes.

Time zone in date range aggregations

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Dates can be converted from another time zone to UTC by specifying the time_zone parameter.

Time zones may either be specified as an ISO 8601 UTC offset (e.g. +01:00 or -08:00) or as one of the http://www.joda.org/joda-time/timezones.html [time zone ids] from the TZ database.

The time_zone parameter is also applied to rounding in date math expressions. As an example, to round to the beginning of the day in the CET time zone, you can do the following:

POST /sales/_search?size=0
{
   "aggs": {
       "range": {
           "date_range": {
               "field": "date",
               "time_zone": "CET",
               "ranges": [
                  { "to": "2016/02/01" }, 
                  { "from": "2016/02/01", "to" : "now/d" }, 
                  { "from": "now/d" }
              ]
          }
      }
   }
}

	This date will be converted to `2016-02-01T00:00:00.000+01:00`.
	`now/d` will be rounded to the beginning of the day in the CET time zone.

Keyed Response

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Setting the keyed flag to true will associate a unique string key with each bucket and return the ranges as a hash rather than an array:

POST /sales/_search?size=0
{
    "aggs": {
        "range": {
            "date_range": {
                "field": "date",
                "format": "MM-yyy",
                "ranges": [
                    { "to": "now-10M/M" },
                    { "from": "now-10M/M" }
                ],
                "keyed": true
            }
        }
    }
}

Response:

{
    ...
    "aggregations": {
        "range": {
            "buckets": {
                "*-10-2015": {
                    "to": 1.4436576E12,
                    "to_as_string": "10-2015",
                    "doc_count": 7
                },
                "10-2015-*": {
                    "from": 1.4436576E12,
                    "from_as_string": "10-2015",
                    "doc_count": 0
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

It is also possible to customize the key for each range:

POST /sales/_search?size=0
{
    "aggs": {
        "range": {
            "date_range": {
                "field": "date",
                "format": "MM-yyy",
                "ranges": [
                    { "from": "01-2015",  "to": "03-2015", "key": "quarter_01" },
                    { "from": "03-2015", "to": "06-2015", "key": "quarter_02" }
                ],
                "keyed": true
            }
        }
    }
}

Response:

{
    ...
    "aggregations": {
        "range": {
            "buckets": {
                "quarter_01": {
                    "from": 1.4200704E12,
                    "from_as_string": "01-2015",
                    "to": 1.425168E12,
                    "to_as_string": "03-2015",
                    "doc_count": 5
                },
                "quarter_02": {
                    "from": 1.425168E12,
                    "from_as_string": "03-2015",
                    "to": 1.4331168E12,
                    "to_as_string": "06-2015",
                    "doc_count": 2
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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