I have the same issue. It seems to be related the behavior of the scroll api with respect to aggregations.
It would appear from the docs that this plugin uses a scroll query, which does not play nice with aggregations. In 2.3 and earlier you could choose whether you wanted the query to be executed as an ordinary query, or as a scan and scroll via the "scan" parameter.
But support for that was dropped in 2.4.
It is worth noting that this question has been asked many times before.
2017:
2016:
2015:
There's even an open issue for it.
For now your best bet is probably to use one of the workarounds suggested with bash/php in previous questions. Or you could try and write up a PR to address the issue.
Not sure if anyone else has news on support for elastic aggregations within the elastic input plugin, it's a sorely needed feature to be sure.
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