# How to print all the hits from a bucket array of results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044 "2020-02-19T18:31:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Chop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chop)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/1 "2020-02-19T18:31:55Z")
I am using Watcher/Alerts to send some emails but it dont seem to find out how to get all keys from an array with out all the array:
> {{ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets.\*.key}}
\<-- this is what my logic said it should work but it didnt 😃
"host" : {
"doc\_count\_error\_upper\_bound" : 0,
"sum\_other\_doc\_count" : 0,
"buckets" : [
{
"doc\_count" : 3,
"key" : "[someservername-02.com](http://someservername-02.com)"
},
{
"doc\_count" : 3,
"key" : "[someservername-03.com](http://someservername-03.com)"
}
]
},
I have to specify each but i am not sure how to find out how many to iterate but i ithink iterations are not possible here so is there a way just to print the keys? i want to avoid the doc\_count?
i know this works
> {{ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets}}
but can i just filter a specific field?
I tried adding a bunch of
> {{ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets.1.key}} {{ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets.2.key}} {{ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets.3.key}}
but ill get an out of index array because there isnt 3 every time.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/2 "2020-02-20T07:50:13Z")
Hey,
try looping like this
```auto
{{#ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets}}
{{key}}
{{/ctx.payload.aggregations.host.buckets}}
```
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### Author:  [@Chop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chop)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/3 "2020-02-20T14:52:04Z")
Thanks, i think i found this in another post from you and i wonder if its possible to go a bit higher on the object for example:
```
{{#ctx.payload.aggregations}}
{{host.buckets.key}}
{{/ctx.payload.aggregations}}
```
This didnt work for me, the idea is to collect diffent subobjects while i am looping.
or what about
```
{{#ctx.payload.hits.hits}}
{{host.buckets.key}}
{{/ctx.payload.hits.hits}}
```
i dont seem to find a way to loop like that.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/4 "2020-02-20T15:15:39Z")
that looping only works on lists. `ctx.payload.aggregations` is not a list.
`ctx.payload.hits.hits` is a list and you can then access the elements within like `{{_source.foo}}` or `{{_index}}`. You can only access fields within that single list element.
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### Author:  [@Chop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chop)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/5 "2020-02-20T20:32:55Z")
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-print-all-the-hits-from-a-bucket-array-of-results/220044/6 "2020-03-19T20:32:55Z")
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