Given this query, i want to retrieve and limit only to top 2 cities from each country. So, given the most popular country, retrieve top 2 cities, then next country, top 2 cities and etcera.

{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "user_city_id": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "user.city_id",
        "size": 999
      },
      "aggs": {
        "user_country_id": {
          "terms": {
            "field": "user.country_id",
            "size": 1
          },
          "aggs": {
            "user_name": {
              "terms": {
                "field": "user.name",
                "size": 1
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "term": {
            "user.category": 1
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

CodePudding user response：

Below aggregation query give you 2 city per country.

{
  "aggs": {
    "user_country_id": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "user.country_id",
        "size": 10
      },
      "aggs": {
        "user_city_id": {
          "terms": {
            "field": "user.city_id",
            "size": 2
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}