# Custom Time field doesnot contain any data after create in grok pattern

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-time-field-doesnot-contain-any-data-after-create-in-grok-pattern/358995>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 7, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-time-field-doesnot-contain-any-data-after-create-in-grok-pattern/358995 "2024-05-07T21:51:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![baber1223](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baber1223/32/83533_2.png) [@baber1223](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baber1223)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-time-field-doesnot-contain-any-data-after-create-in-grok-pattern/358995/1 "2024-05-07T21:51:53Z")

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I have written follow grok pattern in logstash

```auto
filter{

  grok{
    match => { "message" => '%{IPORHOST:clientip} %{HTTPDUSER:ident} %{USER:auth} \[%{HTTPDATE:logtimestamp}\] "(?:%{WORD:verb} %{NOTSPACE:request}(?: HTTP/%{NUMBER:httpversion})?|%{DATA:rawrequest})" %{NUMBER:response} (?:%{NUMBER:bytes:int}|-)' }

}

  date{ match => ["logtimestamp","DD/MMM/YYYY:HH:MM:SS ZZ","ISO8601"] target => "Time" }
}

```

As you can see I don't want to use default timestamp abut want to use Time as field name and use it as timestamp actually this field has created but it does not contain any data . what is the issue ?

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**Author:** ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-time-field-doesnot-contain-any-data-after-create-in-grok-pattern/358995/2 "2024-05-08T04:00:59Z")

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If is this format: [07/May/2024:13:47:19 +0530], should be something like this:

```auto
date{ 
match => ["logtimestamp","dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss ZZ"]
target => "Time" 
}

```

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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:** [June 5, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-time-field-doesnot-contain-any-data-after-create-in-grok-pattern/358995/3 "2024-06-05T04:01:26Z")

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