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Experimental feature: variable_width_histogram #58573

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nik9000 opened this issue Jun 25, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #66055
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Experimental feature: variable_width_histogram #58573

nik9000 opened this issue Jun 25, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #66055
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:Analytics/Aggregations Aggregations experimental/beta Team:Analytics Meta label for analytical engine team (ESQL/Aggs/Geo)

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nik9000 commented Jun 25, 2020 •
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In #42035 @jamesdorfman added a neat new kind of aggregations which performs similarly to a regular histogram but instead to specifying the width of each bucket you specify how many buckets you'd like, kind of like the auto_date_histogram. Unlike auto_date_histogram, variable_width_histogram's buckets have, well, variable width. The particulars of its algorithm mean that the buckets won't necessarily have the same number of documents in them. Instead it tries to preserve the shape of the data. When it has to merge buckets together it merges the buckets that are closest together already.

This is an interesting and new aggregation, and, frankly, we're not sure that we've really thought through the interface all the way. So we'd like some feedback on it and some time to be able to make breaking changes to its request and/or response. This, we're marking it experimental. Our plan to remove experimental is to have a few folks take a look at it and comment.
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Docs: Mark variable_width_histogram experimental
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We're tracking this aggregation's experimental-progress in elastic#58573. We'd
like a little time to be able to make backwards incompatible changes to
the aggregation because we're not 100% sure about the request and
response format yet.
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Docs: Mark variable_width_histogram experimental
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We're tracking this aggregation's experimental-progress in elastic#58573. We'd
like a little time to be able to make backwards incompatible changes to
the aggregation because we're not 100% sure about the request and
response format yet.
nik9000 added a commit to nik9000/elasticsearch that referenced this issue Jun 25, 2020
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Docs: Mark variable_width_histogram experimental
4216eb4 
We're tracking this aggregation's experimental-progress in elastic#58573. We'd
like a little time to be able to make backwards incompatible changes to
the aggregation because we're not 100% sure about the request and
response format yet.
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Docs: Mark variable_width_histogram experimental (#58574)
dda78ff 
We're tracking this aggregation's experimental-progress in #58573. We'd
like a little time to be able to make backwards incompatible changes to
the aggregation because we're not 100% sure about the request and
response format yet.
nik9000 added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 25, 2020
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Docs: Mark variable_width_histogram experimental (#58574)
d22a242 
We're tracking this aggregation's experimental-progress in #58573. We'd
like a little time to be able to make backwards incompatible changes to
the aggregation because we're not 100% sure about the request and
response format yet.
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nik9000 commented Jun 26, 2020

We should almost certainly fix variable_width_histogram when it attempts to collect from many buckets, as described in #58619.

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Drop experimental from variable width histogram
97350c5 
Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes elastic#58573
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Drop experimental from variable width histogram (#66055)
524f39f 
Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes #58573
nik9000 added a commit to nik9000/elasticsearch that referenced this issue Dec 8, 2020
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Drop experimental from variable width histogram (elastic#66055)
7cd830b 
Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes elastic#58573
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Drop experimental from variable width histogram (backport of #66055) (#…
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…66060)

Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes #58573
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Drop experimental from variable width histogram (elastic#66055)
d69873c 
Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes elastic#58573
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Drop experimental from variable width histogram (elastic#66055)
c798234 
Its been several months and we haven't bumped into any good reason to
rework the variable width histogram. So let's drop experimental from it!

Closes elastic#58573
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