February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
12h 24m
English
The most commonly used metric aggregations are stats aggregations. They are generally used as a terminal aggregation step to compute values to be used directly or for sorting.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
To execute curl via the command line, you need to install curl for your operative system.
To correctly execute the following command, you need an index populated with the chapter_08/populate_aggregations.sh script available in the online code.
For executing a stat aggregation, we will perform the following steps:
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