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Field stats API

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Field stats API

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This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

The field stats api allows one to find statistical properties of a field without executing a search, but looking up measurements that are natively available in the Lucene index. This can be useful to explore a dataset which you don’t know much about. For example, this allows creating a histogram aggregation with meaningful intervals based on the min/max range of values.

The field stats api by defaults executes on all indices, but can execute on specific indices too.

All indices:

curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_field_stats?fields=rating"

Specific indices:

curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/index1,index2/_field_stats?fields=rating"

Supported request options:

fields

A list of fields to compute stats for.

level

Defines if field stats should be returned on a per index level or on a cluster wide level. Valid values are indices and cluster (default).

Field statistics

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The field stats api is supported on string based, number based and date based fields and can return the following statistics per field:

max_doc

The total number of documents.

doc_count

The number of documents that have at least one term for this field, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards.

density

The percentage of documents that have at least one value for this field. This is a derived statistic and is based on the max_doc and doc_count.

sum_doc_freq

The sum of each term’s document frequency in this field, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards. Document frequency is the number of documents containing a particular term.

sum_total_term_freq

The sum of the term frequencies of all terms in this field across all documents, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards. Term frequency is the total number of occurrences of a term in a particular document and field.

min_value

The lowest value in the field represented in a displayable form.

max_value

The highest value in the field represented in a displayable form.

Documents marked as deleted (but not yet removed by the merge process) still affect all the mentioned statistics.

Example 1. Cluster level field statistics

GET /_field_stats?fields=rating,answer_count,creation_date,display_name
{
   "_shards": {
      "total": 1,
      "successful": 1,
      "failed": 0
   },
   "indices": {
      "_all": { 
         "fields": {
            "creation_date": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 564633,
               "density": 42,
               "sum_doc_freq": 2258532,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": "2008-08-01T16:37:51.513Z",
               "max_value": "2013-06-02T03:23:11.593Z"
            },
            "display_name": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 126741,
               "density": 9,
               "sum_doc_freq": 166535,
               "sum_total_term_freq": 166616,
               "min_value": "0",
               "max_value": "정혜선"
            },
            "answer_count": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 139885,
               "density": 10,
               "sum_doc_freq": 559540,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": 0,
               "max_value": 160
            },
            "rating": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 437892,
               "density": 33,
               "sum_doc_freq": 1751568,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": -14,
               "max_value": 1277
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

The _all key indicates that it contains the field stats of all indices in the cluster.

Example 2. Indices level field statistics

GET /_field_stats?fields=rating,answer_count,creation_date,display_name&level=indices
{
   "_shards": {
      "total": 1,
      "successful": 1,
      "failed": 0
   },
   "indices": {
      "stack": { 
         "fields": {
            "creation_date": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 564633,
               "density": 42,
               "sum_doc_freq": 2258532,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": "2008-08-01T16:37:51.513Z",
               "max_value": "2013-06-02T03:23:11.593Z"
            },
            "display_name": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 126741,
               "density": 9,
               "sum_doc_freq": 166535,
               "sum_total_term_freq": 166616,
               "min_value": "0",
               "max_value": "정혜선"
            },
            "answer_count": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 139885,
               "density": 10,
               "sum_doc_freq": 559540,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": 0,
               "max_value": 160
            },
            "rating": {
               "max_doc": 1326564,
               "doc_count": 437892,
               "density": 33,
               "sum_doc_freq": 1751568,
               "sum_total_term_freq": -1,
               "min_value": -14,
               "max_value": 1277
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

The stack key means it contains all field stats for the stack index.
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