# Multi\_terms aggregation gives me an error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328 "2021-05-06T18:02:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmsearcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pmsearcher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmsearcher)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328/1 "2021-05-06T18:02:28Z")

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Hello !  
I'm trying to use ElasticSearch v. 7.11.1 on Windows 10. I don't know how to make multi\_terms aggregation work. This query:

```auto
{
  "aggs": {
    "test_agg": {
      "multi_terms": {
        "terms": [{
          "field": "JobTitle.keyword" 
        }, {
          "field": "AboutMe.keyword"
        }]
      }
    }
  }
}

```

gives me this:

```auto
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "parsing_exception",
        "reason": "Unknown aggregation type [multi_terms] did you mean [rare_terms]?",
        "line": 4,
        "col": 22
      }
    ],
    "type": "parsing_exception",
    "reason": "Unknown aggregation type [multi_terms] did you mean [rare_terms]?",
    "line": 4,
    "col": 22,
    "caused_by": {
      "type": "named_object_not_found_exception",
      "reason": "[4:22] unknown field [multi_terms]"
    }
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

but this query:

```auto
{
  "aggs": {
    "test_agg": {
      "terms": 
			{
				"field": "JobTitle.keyword",
				"size": "10"
            }
    }
  }
}

```

works.

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**Author:** ![IliaIsakhin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iliaisakhin/32/75238_2.png) [@IliaIsakhin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IliaIsakhin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328/2 "2021-05-17T06:16:33Z")

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Exactly same behavior for me, I don't know what I'm doing wrong

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**Author:** ![IliaIsakhin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iliaisakhin/32/75238_2.png) [@IliaIsakhin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IliaIsakhin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328/3 "2021-05-17T16:49:40Z")

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@pmsearcher I think I've found an issue. What version of Elasticsearch do you use?  
I found [this PR](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/67597) and, as I see, `multi_terms` aggregation was added in version `7.12`  
That's why I can't use this feature (my cluster's version is 7.9)

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**Author:** ![pmsearcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pmsearcher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmsearcher)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328/4 "2021-05-18T16:13:31Z")

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Hi !  
Yes I asked this question also on StackOverflow and got a reply. My version is 7.11. So it's a very fresh feature

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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:** [June 15, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-terms-aggregation-gives-me-an-error/272328/5 "2021-06-15T16:14:24Z")

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