# Sum aggregation on distinct values query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865 "2020-07-03T23:19:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giselle\_Castrejon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/giselle_castrejon/32/71617_2.png) [@Giselle\_Castrejon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giselle_Castrejon)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865/1 "2020-07-03T23:19:41Z")

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Hi, I am having trouble with my sum aggregation. I am using Elasticsearch [7.6.1] and I cant get the sum of each field, my data is the following:

```
POST test_2/_doc/1
{
  "gender": [
        {
            "name": "other",
            "value": 12
        },
        {
            "name": "male",
            "value": 20
        },
        {
            "name": "male",
            "value": 20
        },
        {
            "name": "other",
            "value": 9
        },
        {
            "name": "female",
            "value": 10
        } 
    ]
}

```

And I have implemented the following:

```
GET test_2/_search
    {
      "aggs": {
        "gender_terms": {
           "terms": {
              "field": "gender.name.keyword",
             "size": 10
           },
           "aggs": {
              "gender_name_value_sums": {
                 "sum": {
                    "field": "gender.value"
                 }
              }
           }
        }
      }
    }

```

The result I am expectin to recieve is the sum of each gender:  
male: 40  
female: 10  
other: 22

But as a result I get the following:

```
"aggregations" : {
    "gender_terms" : {
      "doc_count_error_upper_bound" : 0,
      "sum_other_doc_count" : 0,
      "buckets" : [
        {
          "key" : "female",
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "gender_name_value_sums" : {
            "value" : 71.0
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : "male",
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "gender_name_value_sums" : {
            "value" : 71.0
          }
        },
        {
          "key" : "other",
          "doc_count" : 1,
          "gender_name_value_sums" : {
            "value" : 71.0
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }

```

But why? I don't know why it is not showing me the correct vaules? 🤔

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865/2 "2020-07-04T06:06:19Z")

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Welcome!

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Coming back to your question you probably need to use `nested` type for the `gender` field as everything is by default flattened.

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**Author:** ![Giselle\_Castrejon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/giselle_castrejon/32/71617_2.png) [@Giselle\_Castrejon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giselle_Castrejon)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865/3 "2020-07-04T20:50:52Z")

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Thanks @dadoonet ! I thought nested type was only implemented whe trying to obtain data from anothe API.

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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:** [August 1, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-on-distinct-values-query/239865/4 "2020-08-01T20:50:52Z")

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