# What does sum\_other\_doc\_count mean exactly?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687 "2018-12-06T09:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![nayun\_oh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nayun_oh/32/46442_2.png) [@nayun\_oh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nayun_oh)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687/1 "2018-12-06T09:00:47Z")

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When I use aggregate, I can see sum\_other\_doc\_count in the result. What does this mean?  
Thank you in advance!

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**Author:** ![mayya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mayya/32/83147_2.png) [@mayya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayya)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687/2 "2018-12-21T16:35:34Z")

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> [@nayun\_oh](#):
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> sum\_other\_doc\_count

As this [page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html) explains it `sum_other_doc_count` - this number is the sum of the document counts for all buckets that are not part of the response. We return only the top buckets in the response. If there are many buckets, some buckets will not make it to the response. We count all the documents that contain these buckets and display this number as `sum_other_doc_count`.

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**Author:** ![nayun\_oh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nayun_oh/32/46442_2.png) [@nayun\_oh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nayun_oh)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687/3 "2018-12-24T06:13:09Z")

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Thank you !!

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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:** [January 21, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-sum-other-doc-count-mean-exactly/159687/4 "2019-01-21T06:13:23Z")

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