The previous recipe can be extended to support aggregations in order to retrieve analytics on indexed data.
Executing a search with aggregations
Getting ready
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, which you can get as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
A Maven tool or an IDE that natively supports it for Java programming, such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, must be installed.
The code for this recipe is in the ch13/high-level-client directory and the referred class is AggregationExample.