Global aggregations

The global aggregations lets you break out of the aggregation context of a filter aggregation. Even if you have included a filter query that narrows down a set of documents, the global aggregation aggregates on all documents as if the filter query wasn’t there. It ignores the filter aggregation and implicitly assumes the match_all query.

The following example returns the avg value of the taxful_total_price field from all documents in the index:

  1. GET opensearch_dashboards_sample_data_ecommerce/_search
  2. {
  3.   "size": 0,
  4.   "query": {
  5.     "range": {
  6.       "taxful_total_price": {
  7.         "lte": 50
  8.       }
  9.     }
  10.   },
  11.   "aggs": {
  12.     "total_avg_amount": {
  13.       "global": {},
  14.       "aggs": {
  15.         "avg_price": {
  16.           "avg": {
  17.             "field": "taxful_total_price"
  18.           }
  19.         }
  20.       }
  21.     }
  22.   }
  23. }

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Example response

  1. ...
  2. "aggregations" : {
  3.   "total_avg_amount" : {
  4.     "doc_count" : 4675,
  5.     "avg_price" : {
  6.       "value" : 75.05542864304813
  7.     }
  8.   }
  9.  }
  10. }

You can see that the average value for the taxful_total_price field is 75.05 and not the 38.36 as seen in the filter example when the query matched.