Calculate age

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HI,

i have a birthday field. what is the best practice to calculate age to be able to search on and for doing some visualization in kibana also?

thanks,
Shahar

2

You mean you want to show the age of a person at any given moment in KB?

3

In years.

4

There's no metric etc for this, you'd probably need to do a scripted field with some painless math.

5

Yes i assumed so, but how can i do it and where. Lets say i have a field
named DayOfBirth = 1975-09-16.

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https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.4/scripted-fields.html is where to start.

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