diff --git a/implementation/elasticsearch/src/main/java/net/opentsdb/meta/NamespacedAggregatedDocumentSchema.java b/implementation/elasticsearch/src/main/java/net/opentsdb/meta/NamespacedAggregatedDocumentSchema.java
index 9906f1f30a..cda4e9f2a6 100644
--- a/implementation/elasticsearch/src/main/java/net/opentsdb/meta/NamespacedAggregatedDocumentSchema.java
+++ b/implementation/elasticsearch/src/main/java/net/opentsdb/meta/NamespacedAggregatedDocumentSchema.java
@@ -315,19 +315,31 @@ public Deferred<MetaDataStorageResult> runQuery(
         filter = queryPipelineContext.query().getFilter(
             timeSeriesDataSourceConfig.getFilterId());
       }
-      
-      final ChainFilter.Builder builder = ChainFilter.newBuilder()
-        .setOp(FilterOp.AND)
-        .addFilter(MetricLiteralFilter.newBuilder()
-            .setMetric(metric)
-            .build());
+
+      QueryFilter buildFilter;
+
+      final ChainFilter.Builder builder = ChainFilter
+          .newBuilder()
+          .setOp(FilterOp.AND)
+          .addFilter(MetricLiteralFilter.newBuilder().setMetric(metric).build());
       if (filter != null) {
         builder.addFilter(filter);
       }
+
+      if (filter instanceof ExplicitTagsFilter) {
+        final ExplicitTagsFilter.Builder explicitTagBuilder =
+            ExplicitTagsFilter
+                .newBuilder()
+                .setFilter(builder.build());
+        buildFilter = explicitTagBuilder.build();
+      } else {
+        buildFilter = builder.build();
+      }
+      
       final MetaQuery query = DefaultMetaQuery.newBuilder()
           .setType(QueryType.TIMESERIES)
           .setNamespace(namespace)
-          .setFilter(builder.build())
+          .setFilter(buildFilter)
           .build();
       
       SearchSourceBuilder search = NamespacedAggregatedDocumentQueryBuilder
@@ -663,4 +675,4 @@ private TimeSeriesId buildTimeseries(final String metric, final
     return timeseries;
   }
   
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/implementation/elasticsearch/src/test/java/net/opentsdb/meta/TestNamespacedAggregatedDocumentQuery.java b/implementation/elasticsearch/src/test/java/net/opentsdb/meta/TestNamespacedAggregatedDocumentQuery.java
index d1847f58b2..a338302b6e 100644
--- a/implementation/elasticsearch/src/test/java/net/opentsdb/meta/TestNamespacedAggregatedDocumentQuery.java
+++ b/implementation/elasticsearch/src/test/java/net/opentsdb/meta/TestNamespacedAggregatedDocumentQuery.java
@@ -51,6 +51,36 @@ public void testTagValueRegexQuery() {
         + "{\"term\":{\"tags.key.lowercase\":\"host\"}}]}},\"path\":\"tags\"}}"));
 
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testExplicitTagQuery() {
+
+    QueryFilter chainFil = ChainFilter.newBuilder().setOp(ChainFilter.FilterOp.AND)
+        .addFilter(TagValueRegexFilter.newBuilder().setFilter("cpu").setTagKey("host").build())
+        .build();
+    MetaQuery query = DefaultMetaQuery.newBuilder()
+        .setFrom(0)
+        .setTo(5)
+        .setNamespace("Yahoo")
+        .setFilter( ExplicitTagsFilter.newBuilder().setFilter(chainFil).build())
+        .setType(QueryType.TIMESERIES)
+        .build();
+
+    SearchSourceBuilder source = NamespacedAggregatedDocumentQueryBuilder
+        .newBuilder(query)
+        .build();
+
+    String s = source.toString().replaceAll("\n","")
+        .replaceAll(" ", "");
+    System.out.println(s);
+    assertTrue(s.contains("\"from\":0"));
+    assertTrue(s.contains("\"size\":5"));
+    assertTrue(s.contains("\"query\":{\"bool\":{\"must\":[{\"term\":{\"tags_value\":1}},{\"bool\":"
+        + "{\"must\":{\"nested\":{\"filter\":{\"bool\":{\"must\":[{\"regexp\":"
+        + "{\"tags.value\":\".*cpu.*\"}},{\"term\":{\"tags.key.lowercase\":\"host\"}}]}},"
+        + "\"path\":\"tags\"}}}}]}}"));
+
+  }
 //
 //  @Test
 //  public void testMetricRegexQuery() {