# Calculating elapsed time using scripted fields or Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629 "2019-01-09T22:43:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![et159](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@et159](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/et159)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629/1 "2019-01-09T22:43:04Z")

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Hello ,  
I'm new to ES and I have logs as below  
Timestamp: 01/03/2019 10:59:21.726581 Message: ABCD  
Timestamp: 01/04/2019 10:59:21.726581 Message: BBCD  
Timestamp: 01/05/2019 10:59:21.726581 Message: CBCD  
Timestamp: 01/06/2019 10:59:21.726581 Message: DBCD  
and I need to tag them so I can calculate the time between each logs , any though ??

thanks a lot in advance

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629/2 "2019-01-10T14:47:25Z")

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Can you explain in a little more detail what you are looking to do?

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**Author:** ![et159](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@et159](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/et159)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629/3 "2019-02-02T16:14:45Z")

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Hello,  
I need to calculates the elapsed time between sessions ,  
I figured I can used elapsed plugin with uuid in logstash and add tags,

Thanks a lot,

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-elapsed-time-using-scripted-fields-or-kibana/163629/4 "2019-03-02T16:14:52Z")

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