A parent pipeline aggregation which calculates the cumulative sum of a specified metric in a parent histogram (or date_histogram)
aggregation. The specified metric must be numeric and the enclosing histogram must have min_doc_count set to 0 (default
for histogram aggregations).
A cumulative_sum aggregation looks like this in isolation:
{
    "cumulative_sum": {
        "buckets_path": "the_sum"
    }
}Table 26. cumulative_sum Parameters
| Parameter Name | Description | Required | Default Value | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 
 | The path to the buckets we wish to find the cumulative sum for (see  | Required | |
| 
 | format to apply to the output value of this aggregation | Optional | 
 | 
The following snippet calculates the cumulative sum of the total monthly sales:
POST /sales/_search
{
    "size": 0,
    "aggs" : {
        "sales_per_month" : {
            "date_histogram" : {
                "field" : "date",
                "interval" : "month"
            },
            "aggs": {
                "sales": {
                    "sum": {
                        "field": "price"
                    }
                },
                "cumulative_sales": {
                    "cumulative_sum": {
                        "buckets_path": "sales"  }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}| 
 | 
And the following may be the response:
{
   "took": 11,
   "timed_out": false,
   "_shards": ...,
   "hits": ...,
   "aggregations": {
      "sales_per_month": {
         "buckets": [
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/01/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1420070400000,
               "doc_count": 3,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 550.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 550.0
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/02/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1422748800000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 60.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 610.0
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1425168000000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 375.0
               },
               "cumulative_sales": {
                  "value": 985.0
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}