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Histogram Aggregation
editHistogram Aggregation
editA multi-bucket values source based aggregation that can be applied on numeric values extracted from the documents.
It dynamically builds fixed size (a.k.a. interval) buckets over the values. For example, if the documents have a field
that holds a price (numeric), we can configure this aggregation to dynamically build buckets with interval 5
(in case of price it may represent $5). When the aggregation executes, the price field of every document will be
evaluated and will be rounded down to its closest bucket - for example, if the price is 32
and the bucket size is 5
then the rounding will yield 30
and thus the document will "fall" into the bucket that is associated with the key 30
.
To make this more formal, here is the rounding function that is used:
bucket_key = Math.floor((value - offset) / interval) * interval + offset
The interval
must be a positive decimal, while the offset
must be a decimal in [0, interval)
(a decimal greater than or equal to 0
and less than interval
)
The following snippet "buckets" the products based on their price
by interval of 50
:
POST /sales/_search?size=0 { "aggs" : { "prices" : { "histogram" : { "field" : "price", "interval" : 50 } } } }
And the following may be the response:
{ ... "aggregations": { "prices" : { "buckets": [ { "key": 0.0, "doc_count": 1 }, { "key": 50.0, "doc_count": 1 }, { "key": 100.0, "doc_count": 0 }, { "key": 150.0, "doc_count": 2 }, { "key": 200.0, "doc_count": 3 } ] } } }
Minimum document count
editThe response above show that no documents has a price that falls within the range of [100, 150)
. By default the
response will fill gaps in the histogram with empty buckets. It is possible change that and request buckets with
a higher minimum count thanks to the min_doc_count
setting:
POST /sales/_search?size=0 { "aggs" : { "prices" : { "histogram" : { "field" : "price", "interval" : 50, "min_doc_count" : 1 } } } }
Response:
{ ... "aggregations": { "prices" : { "buckets": [ { "key": 0.0, "doc_count": 1 }, { "key": 50.0, "doc_count": 1 }, { "key": 150.0, "doc_count": 2 }, { "key": 200.0, "doc_count": 3 } ] } } }
By default the histogram
returns all the buckets within the range of the data itself, that is, the documents with
the smallest values (on which with histogram) will determine the min bucket (the bucket with the smallest key) and the
documents with the highest values will determine the max bucket (the bucket with the highest key). Often, when
requesting empty buckets, this causes a confusion, specifically, when the data is also filtered.
To understand why, let’s look at an example:
Lets say the you’re filtering your request to get all docs with values between 0
and 500
, in addition you’d like
to slice the data per price using a histogram with an interval of 50
. You also specify "min_doc_count" : 0
as you’d
like to get all buckets even the empty ones. If it happens that all products (documents) have prices higher than 100
,
the first bucket you’ll get will be the one with 100
as its key. This is confusing, as many times, you’d also like
to get those buckets between 0 - 100
.
With extended_bounds
setting, you now can "force" the histogram aggregation to start building buckets on a specific
min
value and also keep on building buckets up to a max
value (even if there are no documents anymore). Using
extended_bounds
only makes sense when min_doc_count
is 0 (the empty buckets will never be returned if min_doc_count
is greater than 0).
Note that (as the name suggest) extended_bounds
is not filtering buckets. Meaning, if the extended_bounds.min
is higher
than the values extracted from the documents, the documents will still dictate what the first bucket will be (and the
same goes for the extended_bounds.max
and the last bucket). For filtering buckets, one should nest the histogram aggregation
under a range filter
aggregation with the appropriate from
/to
settings.
Example:
POST /sales/_search?size=0 { "query" : { "constant_score" : { "filter": { "range" : { "price" : { "to" : "500" } } } } }, "aggs" : { "prices" : { "histogram" : { "field" : "price", "interval" : 50, "extended_bounds" : { "min" : 0, "max" : 500 } } } } }
Order
editBy default the returned buckets are sorted by their key
ascending, though the order behaviour can be controlled using
the order
setting. Supports the same order
functionality as the Terms Aggregation
.
Offset
editBy default the bucket keys start with 0 and then continue in even spaced steps
of interval
, e.g. if the interval is 10
, the first three buckets (assuming
there is data inside them) will be [0, 10)
, [10, 20)
, [20, 30)
. The bucket
boundaries can be shifted by using the offset
option.
This can be best illustrated with an example. If there are 10 documents with values ranging from 5 to 14, using interval 10
will result in
two buckets with 5 documents each. If an additional offset 5
is used, there will be only one single bucket [5, 15)
containing all the 10
documents.
Response Format
editBy default, the buckets are returned as an ordered array. It is also possible to request the response as a hash instead keyed by the buckets keys:
POST /sales/_search?size=0 { "aggs" : { "prices" : { "histogram" : { "field" : "price", "interval" : 50, "keyed" : true } } } }
Response:
{ ... "aggregations": { "prices": { "buckets": { "0.0": { "key": 0.0, "doc_count": 1 }, "50.0": { "key": 50.0, "doc_count": 1 }, "100.0": { "key": 100.0, "doc_count": 0 }, "150.0": { "key": 150.0, "doc_count": 2 }, "200.0": { "key": 200.0, "doc_count": 3 } } } } }
Missing value
editThe 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.