# Filtering buckets from aggs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 11, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750 "2017-02-11T10:02:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@daaakeee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daaakeee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/1 "2017-02-11T10:02:25Z")
Hi, I am trying to exclude all buckets that are contained in another buckets 'term' field. For example
````auto
{
"key": "1",
"doc_count": 2
},
{
"key": "12",
"doc_count": 2
},
{
"key": "123",
"doc_count": 2
},
{
"key": "1234",
"doc_count": 2
},
{
"key": "12345",
"doc_count": 1
},
}``
I want the output to be
``` "buckets":[ {
"key" : "12345"
"doc_count" : 1
}]
``
as it contains all other buckets. How can I do this using aggs or filters?
````
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/4 "2017-02-11T11:00:36Z")
Please be patient. The forum is manned by volunteers and it is now weekend. Also please do not address specific individuals unless they have already responded to your query.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/5 "2017-02-11T11:05:03Z")
Please be patient. The forum is manned by volunteers and it is now weekend. Also please do not address specific individuals unless they have already responded to your query.
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### Author:  [@daaakeee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daaakeee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/6 "2017-02-11T11:08:38Z")
okay, sorry, I am new to this service;D
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### Author:  [@daaakeee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daaakeee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/7 "2017-02-11T11:09:27Z")
can u help me?😃
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/8 "2017-02-11T11:13:05Z")
No, unfortunately not. I am on my mobile and the poor connection caused me to post twice.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/9 "2017-02-11T15:22:13Z")
These all seem to be unrelated terms. How do you determine that one bucket is contained in another? What exactly is it you are trying to achieve?
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### Author:  [@daaakeee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daaakeee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/10 "2017-02-11T15:54:00Z")
I am trying to filter these buckets into one, so that the bucket which is contained by another not showed in final result, is it possible?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/11 "2017-02-11T16:14:46Z")
I still do not understand what you are trying to achieve, so will probably not be able to help.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/12 "2017-02-12T02:17:35Z")
I don't think that is possible as ES treats them all as separate buckets.
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### Author:  [@daaakeee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daaakeee)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/13 "2017-02-12T09:42:04Z")
Hi, thank you for your reply.. How do you think, can ES filter from query if we consider that the inputs are not buckets, but just documents? So that, from the filter query we receive the document that is not contained by other document? @warkolm
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-buckets-from-aggs/74750/14 "2017-03-12T09:42:11Z")
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