OK, some more info ... it's not aggregating because the doc values it's using for grouping are the unique ID field's. There are some big differences in the whole flow between searches against a single shard collection, and searches against a multi-shard collection. In a single shard collection the AnalyticsQuery is called one time, and there's only one pass through the delegating collector. If someone could explain what's going on in a multi-sharded search that would help a lot I think. My test collection has two shards each one has a replica.
For this search .../aggr?q=*:*&fl=VENDOR_NAME&sort=VENDOR_NAME+asc The user has selected just one field to view, so I make VENDOR_NAME the group by field. This is what I see while debugging: 1. custom AnalyticsQuery is instantiated and the "fl" param is VENDOR_NAME + [AggregationStats] 2. custom AnalyticsQuery is instantiated (again) and the "fl" param is id + [AggregationStats] 3. custom AnalyticsQuery is instantiated (again) and the "fl" param is id + [AggregationStats] 4. getAnalyticsCollector() is called (fl is id + [AggregationStats]) 5. getAnalyticsCollector() is called again (fl is id + [AggregationStats]) 6. custom DelegatingCollector finish() is called 7. custom DelegatingCollector finish() is called 8. custom AnalyticsQuery is instantiated and the "fl" param is VENDOR_NAME + [AggregationStats] + id + [AggregationStats] 9. custom AnalyticsQuery is instantiated and the "fl" param is VENDOR_NAME + [AggregationStats] + id + [AggregationStats] And from the log: INFO - 2016-08-11 09:19:47.245; [ShardTest1 shard1_1 core_node4 ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore; [ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/aggr params={distrib=false&qt=/aggr&fl=id&shards.purpose=4&start=0&fsv=true&sort=VENDOR_NAME+asc&fq={!AggregationPostFilter+count%3DCount+spend%3DINVOICE_AMOUNT}&shard.url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1/|http://localhost:8984/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica2/&rows=10&version=2&q=*:*&NOW=1470925120206&isShard=true&wt=javabin&_=1470925120222} hits=12096 status=0 QTime=64734 INFO - 2016-08-11 09:19:48.876; [ShardTest1 shard1_0 core_node3 ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore; [ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/aggr params={distrib=false&qt=/aggr&fl=id&shards.purpose=4&start=0&fsv=true&sort=VENDOR_NAME+asc&fq={!AggregationPostFilter+count%3DCount+spend%3DINVOICE_AMOUNT}&shard.url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1/|http://localhost:8984/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica2/&rows=10&version=2&q=*:*&NOW=1470925120206&isShard=true&wt=javabin&_=1470925120222} hits=12062 status=0 QTime=66365 INFO - 2016-08-11 09:19:50.952; [ShardTest1 shard1_1 core_node4 ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore; [ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/aggr params={distrib=false&qt=/aggr&fl=VENDOR_NAME&fl=[AggregationStats]&fl=id&shards.purpose=64&fq={!AggregationPostFilter+count%3DCount+spend%3DINVOICE_AMOUNT}&shard.url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica1/|http://localhost:8984/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_1_replica2/&version=2&q=*:*&NOW=1470925120206&ids=100713,940122,44812,210965,584851&isShard=true&wt=javabin&_=1470925120222} status=0 QTime=2070 INFO - 2016-08-11 09:19:53.176; [ShardTest1 shard1_0 core_node3 ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore; [ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/aggr params={distrib=false&qt=/aggr&fl=VENDOR_NAME&fl=[AggregationStats]&fl=id&shards.purpose=64&fq={!AggregationPostFilter+count%3DCount+spend%3DINVOICE_AMOUNT}&shard.url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1/|http://localhost:8984/solr/ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica2/&version=2&q=*:*&NOW=1470925120206&ids=533737,44864,100672,940123,96752&isShard=true&wt=javabin&_=1470925120222} status=0 QTime=4293 INFO - 2016-08-11 09:19:53.178; [ShardTest1 shard1_0 core_node3 ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore; [ShardTest1_shard1_0_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/aggr params={q=*:*&indent=true&fl=VENDOR_NAME&sort=VENDOR_NAME+asc&wt=json&_=1470925120222} hits=24158 status=0 QTime=72972 -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/AnalyticsQuery-fails-on-a-sharded-collection-tp4289274p4291301.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.