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Rollup aggregation limitations

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Rollup aggregation limitations

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Deprecated in 8.11.0.

Rollups will be removed in a future version. Please migrate to downsampling instead.

There are some limitations to how fields can be rolled up / aggregated. This page highlights the major limitations so that you are aware of them.

Limited aggregation components

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The Rollup functionality allows fields to be grouped with the following aggregations:

  • Date Histogram aggregation
  • Histogram aggregation
  • Terms aggregation

And the following metrics are allowed to be specified for numeric fields:

  • Min aggregation
  • Max aggregation
  • Sum aggregation
  • Average aggregation
  • Value Count aggregation
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