# Facet with an async search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 18, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-with-an-async-search/8140 "2012-06-18T08:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![komaln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@komaln](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/komaln)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-with-an-async-search/8140/1 "2012-06-18T08:05:58Z")
I am aware of how using the facet feature of elasticsearch, we can get the aggregated value of values for a specified field/s based on search query result data. I have an application where I am monitoring logs and using elasticsearch to search through the log entries. On UI front I have a paging mechanism in place and hence using async feature of the search to fetch 'n' entries at a time. So my question is, if I modify my async search query to fetch the facet information for certain fields, will it give the aggregated value for the sub-set of result that is fetched as a result of an async query. or will it get the aggregated value for the entire search result (and not the sub-set which is returned to user). Many thanks and regards, Komal ---
**Author:** ![andym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@andym](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andym)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-with-an-async-search/8140/2 "2012-06-18T23:22:17Z")
Hi Komal, Let me make sure I understand your question correctly -- you have a search query which returns N results, and you page through it M results per page. If you modify the original query to add facets, it will return aggregated data for all N results (as opposed to M results displayed to the user at a time) -- Andy On Jun 18, 1:05 am, Komal [komal.nawan...@gmail.com](mailto:komal.nawan...@gmail.com) wrote: > I am aware of how using the facet feature of elasticsearch, we can get the > aggregated value of values for a specified field/s based on search query > result data. > > I have an application where I am monitoring logs and using elasticsearch to > search through the log entries. On UI front I have a paging mechanism in > place and hence using async feature of the search to fetch 'n' entries at a > time. > > So my question is, if I modify my async search query to fetch the facet > information for certain fields, will it give the aggregated value for the > sub-set of result that is fetched as a result of an async query. or will it > get the aggregated value for the entire search result (and not the sub-set > which is returned to user). > > Many thanks and regards, > Komal ---
**Author:** ![komaln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@komaln](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/komaln)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-with-an-async-search/8140/3 "2012-06-19T07:52:40Z")
Hi Andy, Yes thats what I meant. I am getting the results in chunks using the scroll [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/scroll.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/scroll.html)feature of elasticsearch. Even I experimented and saw that we always get facet for entire result set. Many thanks! Komal. On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:52:17 AM UTC+5:30, andym wrote: > Hi Komal, > > Let me make sure I understand your question correctly -- you have a > search query which returns N results, and you page through it M > results per page. > > If you modify the original query to add facets, it will return > aggregated data for all N results (as opposed to M results displayed > to the user at a time) > > -- Andy > > On Jun 18, 1:05 am, Komal [komal.nawan...@gmail.com](mailto:komal.nawan...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I am aware of how using the facet feature of elasticsearch, we can get > > the > > aggregated value of values for a specified field/s based on search query > > result data. > > > > I have an application where I am monitoring logs and using elasticsearch > > to > > search through the log entries. On UI front I have a paging mechanism in > > place and hence using async feature of the search to fetch 'n' entries > > at a > > time. > > > > So my question is, if I modify my async search query to fetch the facet > > information for certain fields, will it give the aggregated value for > > the > > sub-set of result that is fetched as a result of an async query. or will > > it > > get the aggregated value for the entire search result (and not the > > sub-set > > which is returned to user). > > > > Many thanks and regards, > > Komal ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facet-with-an-async-search/8140/4 "2017-07-06T03:23:28Z")