# {"min\_doc\_count"} on Unique Count aggregation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-doc-count-on-unique-count-aggregation/174751>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-doc-count-on-unique-count-aggregation/174751 "2019-04-01T09:50:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![elk\_user188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elk\_user188](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk_user188)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-doc-count-on-unique-count-aggregation/174751/1 "2019-04-01T09:50:16Z")

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Hi!

I'd like to know a simple thing:

in a visualization (e.g. Table visualization), using a Count aggregation, I can filter the results by writing {"min\_doc\_count":2} in the JSON input field.

Unfortunately, the same syntax will not work if the aggregation is a Unique Count.

Is there an equivalent way to accomplish such a task?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-doc-count-on-unique-count-aggregation/174751/2 "2019-04-03T18:53:25Z")

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As far as I can tell, this is currently not supported. Underneath the hood, unique count is doing a cardinality aggregation, and I don't see an option for filtering: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-metrics-cardinality-aggregation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-metrics-cardinality-aggregation.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-doc-count-on-unique-count-aggregation/174751/3 "2019-05-01T18:53:26Z")

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