# How to get Index creation timestamp
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-index-creation-timestamp/16514
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 21, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-index-creation-timestamp/16514 "2014-03-21T05:50:46Z")
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### Author:  [@nishidha\_randad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nishidha_randad)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-index-creation-timestamp/16514/1 "2014-03-21T05:50:46Z")
Hi,
Is there any way to get the timestamp of an ES index creation through ES
query?
Thanks in advance,
Nishidha
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-index-creation-timestamp/16514/2 "2017-07-06T01:41:41Z")