# Get distinct fields for given filters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026 "2018-07-22T11:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![chits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@chits](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chits)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026/1 "2018-07-22T11:04:19Z")

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Hi ,

I want to get distinct fields in an index for given filter, for eg  
for the below data  
|Name|age |Country|Amount|  
|Alfreds|34|Germeny|100|  
|Andrew|43|U.K|333|  
|Raj|54|India|4553|  
|John|43|U.K|325|  
|Ana|32|Mexico|56|  
|Christina |22|Sweden|345|  
I want to have a distinct country name when say, the amount is greater than 300.

what is the best possible way to achieve the same?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026/2 "2018-07-22T11:24:32Z")

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I'd do a bool with filter clause with a range query on `Amount` field with `gt` to `300`.  
And I'd add a terms aggregation on `Country` field.

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**Author:** ![chits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@chits](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chits)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026/3 "2018-07-23T06:06:13Z")

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What if the field for which I want distinct values is multivalued, In an another use case I want to have distinct elements from a multivalued fields for given filters, the output should contains only distinct elements across the records.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026/4 "2018-07-23T07:03:35Z")

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Did you try a simple test?  
What do you get?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-distinct-fields-for-given-filters/141026/5 "2018-08-20T07:03:38Z")

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