Multiple filters and an aggregate in elasticsearch

Question

How can I use a filter in connection with an aggregate in elasticsearch?

The official documentation gives only trivial examples for filter and for aggregations and n

Answer 1

Put your filter in a filtered-query.

The top-level filter is for filtering search hits only, and not facets/aggregations. It was renamed to post_filter in 1.0 due to this quite common confusion.

Also, you might want to look into this post on why you often want to use bool and not and/or: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/all-about-elasticsearch-filter-bitsets/