# Size is not working with composite aggregations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-is-not-working-with-composite-aggregations/207191>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 9, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-is-not-working-with-composite-aggregations/207191 "2019-11-09T00:51:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seetha93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Seetha93](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetha93)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-is-not-working-with-composite-aggregations/207191/1 "2019-11-09T00:51:36Z")

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I have the following query:

```
GET index_name/_search
{
  "size": 0, 
  "aggs": {
    "my_buckets": {
      "composite": {
        "size": 100,
        "sources": [
          {
            "field1": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "field1"
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "field2": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "field2.raw"
              }
            }
          },
         {
            "field3": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "field3"
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "field4": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "field4.raw"
              }
            }
          },
          ...
          {
            "field7": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "field7"
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "aggregations": {
        "hits": {
          "top_hits": { 
            "size": 100, 
            "_source": {
              "includes": "field10"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

But, result has only 8 buckets and an after key. I assume that after key says that, we have more results. In that case why it's not retrieved in the same request ? Doesn't size specifies the number of buckets i expect from the aggregation results ?

Below is my response:

```
{
  ...
  "hits" : {
   ...
  },
  "aggregations" : {
    "my_buckets" : {
      "after_key" : {
        "field1" : 0.0,
        "field2" : "0.0",
        "field3" : some-value,
        "field4" : "0.0",
        "field5" : "some-value",
        "field6" : "0.0",
        "field7" : 0
      },
      "buckets" : [
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
            "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
               ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                ...
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : {
            "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 1,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                {
                  ...
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "field1" : 0.0,
             "field2" : "0.0",
            "field3" : some-value,
            "field4" : "0.0",
            "field5" : "some-value",
            "field6" : "0.0",
            "field7" : 0
          },
          "doc_count" : 2,
          "hits" : {
            "hits" : {
              "total" : 2,
              "max_score" : 1.0,
              "hits" : [
                {
                  ...
                },
                {
                 ...
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

```

What I am missing here ?

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**Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-is-not-working-with-composite-aggregations/207191/2 "2019-12-07T00:51:39Z")

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