What is Metric and Bucket Aggregations?

Metric and bucket aggregations are basic concepts that are used when creating visualizations.

Table of contents

• Metric aggregations
• Bucket aggregations

Metric aggregations

Metric aggregations that calculate metrics from field values, used for the Y-axis of a visualization.

Metric Aggregations

• count
• average
• sum
• min
• max
• standard deviation
• unique count
• median (50th percentile)
• percentiles
• percentile ranks
• top hit
• geo centroid

Parent Pipeline Aggregations:

• derivative
• cumulative sum
• moving average
• serial diff

Sibling Pipeline Aggregations:

• average bucket
• sum bucket
• min bucket
• max bucket

Bucket aggregations

Bucket aggregations that group documents into buckets, are based on field values, ranges, or other criteria, used for the X-axis of a visualization

• date histogram
• range
• terms
• filters
• significant terms