# Sum Bucket Aggregation > More info about sum bucket aggregation is in the [official elasticsearch docs][1] A sibling pipeline aggregation which calculates the sum across all bucket of a specified metric in a sibling aggregation. The specified metric must be numeric and the sibling aggregation must be a multi-bucket aggregation. ## Simple example ```JSON { "aggs" : { "sales_per_month" : { "date_histogram" : { "field" : "date", "interval" : "month" }, "aggs": { "sales": { "sum": { "field": "price" } } } }, "sum_monthly_sales": { "sum_bucket": { "buckets_path": "sales_per_month>sales" } } } } ``` And now the query via DSL: ```php $dateAggregation = new DateHistogramAggregation('sales_per_month', 'date', 'month'); $dateAggregation->addAggregation(new SumAggregation('sales', 'price')); $sumBucketAggregation = new SumBucketAggregation( 'sum_monthly_sales', 'sales_per_month>sales' ) $search = new Search(); $search->addAggregation($dateAggregation); $search->addAggregation($sumBucketAggregation); $queryArray = $search->toArray(); ``` [1]: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-pipeline-sum-bucket-aggregation.html