# Generate a UUID using randomuuid in painless

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-a-uuid-using-randomuuid-in-painless/144354>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-a-uuid-using-randomuuid-in-painless/144354 "2018-08-14T13:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yasser\_Ouakil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yasser_ouakil/32/34466_2.png) [@Yasser\_Ouakil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yasser_Ouakil)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-a-uuid-using-randomuuid-in-painless/144354/3 "2018-08-21T09:25:14Z")

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Thank you !

I just want to generate a unique ID for each doc.

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