# Max Bucket Aggregation: Only return that result?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-bucket-aggregation-only-return-that-result/158955
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-bucket-aggregation-only-return-that-result/158955 "2018-11-30T19:04:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Speedman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Speedman)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-bucket-aggregation-only-return-that-result/158955/1 "2018-11-30T19:04:32Z")
Here's the query I'm running:
```
{
"size": 0,
"query": {
"range": {
"timestamp": {
"gte": "2018-11-28",
"lte": "2018-11-28"
}
}
},
"aggs": {
"hits_per_minute": {
"date_histogram": {
"field": "timestamp",
"interval": "minute"
},
"aggs": {
"total_hits": {
"sum": {
"field": "hits_count"
}
}
}
},
"max_transactions_per_minute": {
"max_bucket": {
"buckets_path": "hits_per_minute>total_hits"
}
}
}
}
```
(If anybody needs to know, the docs in question contain fields that show the total hits for our API endpoints over the course of a minute, with one doc per minute from each instance.)
The max bucket works just fine and gives me the results I want. Is there a way to skip the rest of the results, though? I don't need to actually see the total hits for each minute, just the maximum.
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### Author:  [@Speedman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Speedman)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-bucket-aggregation-only-return-that-result/158955/2 "2018-12-05T21:29:15Z")
Found the answer: [response filtering using the filter\_path option in the URL](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#common-options-response-filtering):
_[http://hostname/index/\_search](http://hostname/index/_search)_ **?filter\_path=aggregations.max\_transactions\_per\_minute**
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-bucket-aggregation-only-return-that-result/158955/3 "2019-01-02T21:29:23Z")
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