Elastic Search: aggregation random order?

Question

is it possible to have aggregations with a random order? It seems that there is only asc or desc possible?

{
\"aggs\" : {
    \"genders\" : {
        \"terms\" :         


        

Answer 1

Nope, according to the official documentation, terms aggregations are always sorted one way or another. If not specified, aggregated terms are sorted by count descending.

If at all needed, you can always shuffle the results on the client-side in some random order, though.