# Date range data type showing up as unknown in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-range-data-type-showing-up-as-unknown-in-kibana/190320>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 13, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-range-data-type-showing-up-as-unknown-in-kibana/190320 "2019-07-13T00:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![nishantagarwal1990](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@nishantagarwal1990](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nishantagarwal1990)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-range-data-type-showing-up-as-unknown-in-kibana/190320/1 "2019-07-13T00:10:48Z")

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I am indexing data into ES using json

```
JsonObject dateRange = new JsonObject();
dateRange.addProperty("gte", startTime);
dateRange.addProperty("lte", startTime + timeTaken);

```

startTime and timeTaken are in epoch\_millis.

Template definition for it is

```
"events": {
      "properties": {
        "runTimeMs" : {
          "type": "date_range",
          "format" : "epoch_millis"
        }, 

```

When i view the field in kibana it shows up as unknown and i am not able to filter by runTimeMs:1234. Only runTimeMs:[1 TO 3] works.

What do i need to do to make sure that runTimeMs field is of type date range and the value query works?

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-range-data-type-showing-up-as-unknown-in-kibana/190320/2 "2019-07-18T11:34:06Z")

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Date range data type is not really fully supported in Kibana, so your best choice would be to use 2 separate fields for the range and then filtering using those.

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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:** [August 15, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-range-data-type-showing-up-as-unknown-in-kibana/190320/3 "2019-08-15T11:34:07Z")

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