How do I create a scripted field in kibana 4 that uses aggregation?
Kibana 4 has a new feature to add scripted fields and write custom scripts. I wish to write a script that uses aggregations. Its easy to do simple arithmetic operations in scripted scripts but for doing aggregations I am puzzled. I am a new comer to Kibana and elasticsearch, I am looking for a sample script for beginning..
Answer
Scripted fields in Kibana are powered by lucene expressions, which only support numeric operations right now. Support for things like string manipulation and date parsing will probably be added at some point, but I doubt scripts will even support executing aggregations.
Scripted fields are primarily for converting a number before using it, or creating a synthetic field which is the combination of two or more other fields. Down the road they may even support things like extracting the day of the week from a date, or the portion of a string that matches a regular expression.