Elasticsearch aggregation order by top hit score
I had the same issue, and the way I resolved it was to introduce a sub-aggregation on the docs score. Then in my outer aggregation, I ordered by name of the max_score aggregation.
GET /my-index/my-type/_search{ "query": { "bool" : { "should" : [ { "match" : { "searchTerm" : { "query" : "style", "type" : "boolean" } } }, { "flt_field" : { "searchTerm" : { "like_text" : "style" } } }] } }, "aggs": { "group_by_target_url": { "terms": { "field": "targetUrl", "order": { "max_score": "desc" } }, "aggs": { "max_score": { "max": { "script": "doc.score" } } } } } }I followed the directions on this link: