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Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook
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It is often required to return only the count of the matched results and not the results themselves.
There are a lot of scenarios involving counting, such as the following:
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
To execute these commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or similar. I suggest using the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.
To correctly execute the following commands, you will need an index populated with the ch04/populate_kibana.txt
commands, which is available in the online code.
In order to execute a counting...