# Have the timestamp when filebeat send log

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-the-timestamp-when-filebeat-send-log/120435
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-the-timestamp-when-filebeat-send-log/120435 "2018-02-19T11:18:52Z")
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### Author: ![Pierre\_What\_s\_Up\_Sca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@Pierre\_What\_s\_Up\_Sca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pierre_What_s_Up_Sca)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-the-timestamp-when-filebeat-send-log/120435/1 "2018-02-19T11:18:52Z")

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Hi,  
How can I have the timestamp from Filebeat when he has sending le log to Logstash ?

I need to know how many time take filebeat to send log in logstash

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### Author: ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-the-timestamp-when-filebeat-send-log/120435/2 "2018-02-19T15:43:27Z")

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Do you send text or json logs?

For text logs, filebeat stores the read timestamp in `@timestamp`. E.g. the filebeat modules (using Ingest node) rename `@timestamp` to `read_timestamp` + create the new events `@timestamp` from the log message it's timestamp. One can also add the current timestamp in logstash as well to have an `receive_timestamp`.

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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: [March 12, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-the-timestamp-when-filebeat-send-log/120435/3 "2018-03-12T11:19:16Z")

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