Hi folks, I am trying to show unique count in a metric and observed that the numbers are wrong. Setup: I used enhanced table visualisation and did a "unique count" of keyword type field. in advanced setting I used {"precision_threshold":20000}. The filter used on top is of the format: field1.ke…

Hi @Christian_Dahlqvist , In my case its is a single index, hence the field is consistently of the type keyword. Does it mean it is a limitation of the 1st counting technique ? Thanks

Elasticsearch cardinality aggregation not returning accurate numbers despite using precision_threshold

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Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) November 8, 2021, 5:10pm 4

As far as I know it is always an approximation.

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