# Is it possible query for summed up cardinalities?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983 "2016-11-14T13:22:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@luka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luka)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983/1 "2016-11-14T13:22:30Z")
I use Cardinality Aggregation in a query. Is it possible modify the query such that the response also contains the sum of those counts?
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### Author:  [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983/2 "2016-11-14T14:11:42Z")
Hi @luka,
the cardinality aggregation is a single-value aggregation, i.e. it produces only a single value. What do you want to sum up? Can you show a concrete example?
Nevertheless, if you want to sum the results of an aggregation, you can use the [sum bucket pipeline aggregation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-aggregations-pipeline-sum-bucket-aggregation.html).
Daniel
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### Author:  [@luka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luka)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983/3 "2016-11-14T14:36:09Z")
Hi @danielmitterdorfer,
The aggregation was only the last one in a series of nested aggregations, so your guessed my case correctly. Thank you!
ps I am still at version 1.7 and didn't know about pipelines.
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### Author:  [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983/4 "2016-11-14T14:38:24Z")
Hi Luka,
> [@luka](#):
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> ps I am still at version 1.7 and didn't know about pipelines.
Oh, I assumed you were at least on 2.x. Note that pipeline aggregations have been added in Elasticsearch 2.0, so unfortunately, you cannot use them.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-query-for-summed-up-cardinalities/65983/5 "2016-12-12T14:38:23Z")
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