How to change the data type of my index pattern?

kercio · May 25, 2020, 10:59pm

I would like to change the UploadTimestamp from string to date. It's grayed-out.

warkolm · May 26, 2020, 12:03am

You can't change it once it's been defined in Elasticsearch in that index. The only ways to change the format are;

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