JarCastingField Stats Plugin for Elasticsearch
This plugin provides a feature very similar to Field Stats native Elasticsearch functionality that has been removed from Elasticsearch starting from version 6.0. It imitates the old functionality and is compatible with the old API.
Read more about potential use cases in the blog post Field Stats for Elasticsearch 6.x.
Installation
Make sure to change the version number in the download URL based on your ES version. You can find available releases here: https://github.com/sematext/elasticsearch-field-stats/releases. The plugin version must match your Elasticsearch version. Feel free to contribute new version if your version is not supported Elasticsearch version which you use.
bin/elasticsearch-plugin install URL
Example for ES 6.4.1:
bin/plugin install https://github.com/sematext/elasticsearch-field-stats/releases/download/v6.4.1/field-stats-6.4.1.zip
Usage
The field stats API lets one find statistical properties of a field without executing an expensive aggregation by looking up measurements that are natively available in the Lucene index. This can be useful to explore a dataset that you don’t know much about. For example, this allows finding indices that should be queried based on min/max date they store with meaningful.
GET logs*/_field_stats?fields=timestamp
Supported request options:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
fields |
A list of fields to compute stats for. The field name supports wildcard notation. For example, using text_* will cause all fields that match the expression to be returned. |
level |
Defines if field stats should be returned on a per index level or on a cluster wide level. Valid values are indices and cluster (default). |
Alternatively, the fields option can also be defined in the request body:
POST _field_stats?level=indices
{
"fields" : ["timestamp"]
}
Field statistics
The field stats API is supported on string-based, number-based and date-based fields and can return the following statistics per field:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
max_doc |
The total number of documents. |
doc_count |
The number of documents that have at least one term for this field, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards. |
density |
The percentage of documents that have at least one value for this field. This is a derived statistic and is based on the max_doc and doc_count. |
sum_doc_freq |
The sum of each term’s document frequency in this field, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards. Document frequency is the number of documents containing a particular term. |
sum_total_term_freq |
The sum of the term frequencies of all terms in this field across all documents, or -1 if this measurement isn’t available on one or more shards. Term frequency is the total number of occurrences of a term in a particular document and field. |
min_value |
The lowest value in the field. |
min_value_as_string |
The lowest value in the field represented in a displayable form. All fields, but string fields returns this. (since string fields, represent values already as strings) |
max_value |
The highest value in the field. |
max_value_as_string |
The highest value in the field represented in a displayable form. All fields, but string fields returns this. (since string fields, represent values already as strings) |
Note
It is very important to note that documents marked as deleted (but not yet removed by internal Lucene merge process) still affect all the mentioned statistics. Keep this in mind and use field stats wisely. This is very useful especially for environemnts with append-only indices.
Build and contribution
In order to install this plugin, you need to create a zip distribution.
./gradlew build
This will produce a zip file in build/distributions. After building the zip file, you can install it like this
bin/plugin install file:///path/to/elasticsearch-field-stats/build/distribution/elasticsearch-field-stats-<VERSION>.zip
Feel free to prepare pull requests.
Licenses
This repository in distributed under Apache License. Feel free to use and contribute!
