diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder.java
index cd43777959e..de66f68103f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder extends LeafOnly<ValuesSource.Nume
     private PercentilesMethod method = PercentilesMethod.TDIGEST;
     private int numberOfSignificantValueDigits = 3;
     private double compression = 100.0;
-    private boolean keyed = false;
+    private boolean keyed = true;
 
     public PercentileRanksAggregatorBuilder(String name) {
         super(name, InternalTDigestPercentileRanks.TYPE, ValuesSourceType.NUMERIC, ValueType.NUMERIC);
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentilesAggregatorBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentilesAggregatorBuilder.java
index 302f2c1947c..4ab26948df3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentilesAggregatorBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/metrics/percentiles/PercentilesAggregatorBuilder.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class PercentilesAggregatorBuilder extends LeafOnly<ValuesSource.Numeric,
     private PercentilesMethod method = PercentilesMethod.TDIGEST;
     private int numberOfSignificantValueDigits = 3;
     private double compression = 100.0;
-    private boolean keyed = false;
+    private boolean keyed = true;
 
     public PercentilesAggregatorBuilder(String name) {
         super(name, InternalTDigestPercentiles.TYPE, ValuesSourceType.NUMERIC, ValueType.NUMERIC);