# Elastic Search Mapping Date Format to Visualize time series on Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-mapping-date-format-to-visualize-time-series-on-kibana/116322
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 20, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-mapping-date-format-to-visualize-time-series-on-kibana/116322 "2018-01-20T03:34:17Z")
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### Author: ![Sam12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sam12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam12)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-mapping-date-format-to-visualize-time-series-on-kibana/116322/1 "2018-01-20T03:34:17Z")

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Hi All,

In my log file i am receiving date in format yyyymmdd\_HHmmss so does elastic search support this date format for mapping so i can visualize timeseries on kibana?  
Thanks  
Sam

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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: [February 18, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-mapping-date-format-to-visualize-time-series-on-kibana/116322/3 "2018-02-18T02:13:08Z")

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