# Document timestamp field 7.8

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732>\
**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")\
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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:** [September 24, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-timestamp-field-7-8/249732/2 "2020-09-24T03:20:52Z")

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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.

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