# Document timestamp field 7.8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 24, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732 "2020-09-24T03:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dotnetrockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dotnetrockstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dotnetrockstar)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732/1 "2020-09-24T03:18:09Z")
Is it possible to add a timestamp field to each document when created or last updated? Elastic version 7.8. I need to know last time document was updated. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732/2 "2020-09-24T03:20:52Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 There is, you need to add it yourself. You can do that using a pipeline [like this one](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creation-and-update-timestamps-for-each-doc/93456/2), or use Logstash or whatever client you are using to send the data to Elasticsearch with. ---
**Author:** ![Dotnetrockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dotnetrockstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dotnetrockstar)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732/3 "2020-09-24T03:24:44Z")
Thank you. I will give this a shot. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732/4 "2020-10-22T03:24:58Z")
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