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Aggregation options

Learn about aggregations available in alerting rules.

Aggregations summarize your data to make it easier to analyze. In some alerting rules, you can specify aggregations to gather data for the rule.

The following aggregations are available in some rules:

AggregationDescription
Average
Average value of a numeric field.
Cardinality
Approximate number of unique values in a field.
Document count
Number of documents in the selected dataset.
Max
Highest value of a numeric field.
Min
Lowest value of a numeric field.
Percentile
Numeric value which represents the point at which n% of all values in the selected dataset are lower (choices are 95th or 99th).
Rate
Rate at which a specific field changes over time. To learn about how the rate is calculated, refer to Rate aggregation.
Sum
Total of a numeric field in the selected dataset.

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