I am currently working on a search page for my application. Since I already have a front-end I couldn't use Kibana directly, but I like some ideas such as the stats displayed in available fields. So, how does Kibana gets this info? Is it possible to have those stats for all occurrences in ES?

The answers to those questions are quite computationally expensive and highly dependent on the semantics of the individual type. That is why Elasticsearch can not do that for you in the general case. I don't see a way around executing aggregations appropriate for each particular field in your applic…

How does Kibana get available fields stats?

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ezequielo (E) February 23, 2017, 2:20pm 5

Thanks @weltenwort. But I am more interested in how many different values and its distribution we have for certain attributes (i.e: country) rather than that kind stats. Maybe my question wasn't clear.

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How does Kibana get available fields stats?

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