Hi, About a year ago, lots of people from Elastic were singing the praises of the field_stats_api, specifically how it can be used to figure out which indices to target a search on. Kibana still uses this mechanism in the background. I came to implement something similar myself yesterday, and found…

@warkolm Hi, I raised the question as a support ticket, this is the reply I got: field_stats is deprecated and the replacement is to use a new endpoint called field_caps. Although field_stats was added to solve your problem but in the meantime we improved the handling of range query a lot. A sha…

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Field_stats_api deprecated?

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warkolm (Mark Walkom) May 11, 2017, 12:42pm 2

We'll be making changes to cater for it.

That (soft) limit was removed in 5.4

That I don't know, but I will ask around

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