# DATESTAMP\_OTHER seems not parsing properly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datestamp-other-seems-not-parsing-properly/52657>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 13, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datestamp-other-seems-not-parsing-properly/52657 "2016-06-13T19:52:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@Adam\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_M)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datestamp-other-seems-not-parsing-properly/52657/1 "2016-06-13T19:52:41Z")

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Hello!

I started playing with Logstash and Kibana and I got stuck with my logfile. I tried different approaches but I just can't parse timestamp properly, elastic keeps mapping that field as string...

Anybody help, please?

The example input is:

> Tue May 17 00:13:43 UTC 2016 OrderType: ASK Current\_Top\_Bid: 453.02 minimum\_to\_ask: 459.616175 Current\_StopLoss: 0 Aborting.

My configuration looks like:

```
input {
  file {
    path => "C:\logs\logs.log"
    start_position => "beginning"
  }
}

filter {
  grok {
    match => { "message" => "%{DATESTAMP_OTHER:logdate} OrderType: %{WORD:orderType} %{WORD:current_top}: %{BASE10NUM:top_value:float} (maximum_to_bid:|minimum_to_ask:) %{BASE10NUM:value_cash:float} Current_StopLoss: %{BASE10NUM:stoploss:float} %{WORD:action}" }
  }
  
  mutate {
    add_field => ["cust_time", "%{YEAR} %{MONTH} %{MONTHDAY} %{TIME}"]
  }

  date {
    match => ["cust_time","yyyy MMM dd HH:mm:ss"]
    remove_field => ["cust_time"]
  }
}

output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datestamp-other-seems-not-parsing-properly/52657/2 "2016-06-14T06:47:36Z")

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You need to use the date filter on the `logdate` field, is that is what you want mapped.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datestamp-other-seems-not-parsing-properly/52657/3 "2017-07-06T04:53:11Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:53am UTC