Cumulative sum aggregation

A parent pipeline aggregation which calculates the cumulative sum of a specified metric in a parent histogram (or date_histogram) aggregation. The specified metric must be numeric and the enclosing histogram must have min_doc_count set to 0 (default for histogram aggregations).

Syntax

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A cumulative_sum aggregation looks like this in isolation:

{
  "cumulative_sum": {
    "buckets_path": "the_sum"
  }
}

Table 59. cumulative_sum Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Required	Default Value
`buckets_path`	The path to the buckets we wish to find the cumulative sum for (see `buckets_path` Syntax for more details)	Required
`format`	DecimalFormat pattern for the output value. If specified, the formatted value is returned in the aggregation’s `value_as_string` property	Optional	`null`

The following snippet calculates the cumulative sum of the total monthly sales:

resp = client.search(
    index="sales",
    size=0,
    aggs={
        "sales_per_month": {
            "date_histogram": {
                "field": "date",
                "calendar_interval": "month"
            },
            "aggs": {
                "sales": {
                    "sum": {
                        "field": "price"
                    }
                },
                "cumulative_sales": {
                    "cumulative_sum": {
                        "buckets_path": "sales"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
)
print(resp)

response = client.search(
  index: 'sales',
  body: {
    size: 0,
    aggregations: {
      sales_per_month: {
        date_histogram: {
          field: 'date',
          calendar_interval: 'month'
        },
        aggregations: {
          sales: {
            sum: {
              field: 'price'
            }
          },
          cumulative_sales: {
            cumulative_sum: {
              buckets_path: 'sales'
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
)
puts response

const response = await client.search({
  index: "sales",
  size: 0,
  aggs: {
    sales_per_month: {
      date_histogram: {
        field: "date",
        calendar_interval: "month",
      },
      aggs: {
        sales: {
          sum: {
            field: "price",
          },
        },
        cumulative_sales: {
          cumulative_sum: {
            buckets_path: "sales",
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
});
console.log(response);

POST /sales/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "sales_per_month": {
      "date_histogram": {
        "field": "date",
        "calendar_interval": "month"
      },
      "aggs": {
        "sales": {
          "sum": {
            "field": "price"
          }
        },
        "cumulative_sales": {
          "cumulative_sum": {
            "buckets_path": "sales" 
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

buckets_path instructs this cumulative sum aggregation to use the output of the sales aggregation for the cumulative sum

And the following may be the response:

{
   "took": 11,
   "timed_out": false,
   "_shards": ...,
   "hits": ...,
   "aggregations": {
      "sales_per_month": {
         "buckets": [
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/01/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1420070400000,
               "doc_count": 3,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 550.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 550.0
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/02/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1422748800000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 60.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 610.0
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1425168000000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 375.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 985.0
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}

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