Metric Aggregations
Perform calculations like sum, average, min, max, and count across your data using various metric aggregation types.
Discover Data Insights
What if you could ask "how much total sales did we have last month?" or "what's the average price of our products?" Aggregations in Elasticsearch let you do exactly that!
They provide powerful analytical capabilities beyond simple search. Think of them as SQL's GROUP BY and aggregate functions, but for your search data.
Unpacking Metric Aggregations
Metric aggregations are the simplest type of aggregation. They calculate a single metric (like a sum, average, min, or max) over a set of documents.
They give you numerical summaries of your data, helping you quickly understand key statistics and trends without retrieving all individual documents.
All lessons in this course
- Metric Aggregations
- Bucket Aggregations
- Pipeline Aggregations
- Nested and Sub-Aggregations