# Filebeat - Automatic log message TIMESTAMP recognition **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [August 30, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-automatic-log-message-timestamp-recognition/197482 "2019-08-30T09:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Gordon\_Pym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arthur_gordon_pym/32/53355_2.png) [@Arthur\_Gordon\_Pym](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arthur_Gordon_Pym)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-automatic-log-message-timestamp-recognition/197482/1 "2019-08-30T09:17:10Z")
Hi guys. I started playing with ELK (7.3.1 all components), on my CentOS7 test machine. First problem, i also uso Splunk as bigdata Analyzer/Monitoring System... the first gift Splunk did, is to recognize almost every timestamp in a raw log, by itself... that's great... same feature, i can't find in ELK, nor filebeat. Every raw log type seems must be "programmed" with a timestamp config in yml... is it so? Really does not exist a feature to make filebeat to recognize a timestamp by itself? Ex. Filebeat /var/log/filebeat/ to Logstash-\>ES, searching in Kibana, fields logged, ``` Time: Aug 30, 2019 @ 11:11:35.173 @timestamp: Aug 30, 2019 @ 11:11:35.173 message: 2019-08-30T11:11:32.267+0200 INFO [monitoring] [........] ``` Automatic fields (date type) do not corrispond... Did i loose some config, or really filebeat can't catch the "2019-08-30T11:11:32.267+0200" string and ingest as log entry/message timestamp, but ingest only event timestamp when "catched" with actual catch date? Thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Gordon\_Pym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arthur_gordon_pym/32/53355_2.png) [@Arthur\_Gordon\_Pym](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arthur_Gordon_Pym)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-automatic-log-message-timestamp-recognition/197482/2 "2019-09-03T22:01:45Z")
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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:** [October 1, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-automatic-log-message-timestamp-recognition/197482/3 "2019-10-01T22:01:47Z")
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