# How to overwrite the @timestamp with the value in the log?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427 "2018-07-03T16:48:29Z")
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### Author: ![prateedshetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@prateedshetty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prateedshetty)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427/1 "2018-07-03T16:48:30Z")

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There is NO logstash in the picture. We are using filebeat to directly push logs to Kibana.

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### Author: ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427/2 "2018-07-04T07:46:53Z")

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I think you are looking for the ingest node feature in Elasticsearch: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/ingest.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/ingest.html)

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### Author: ![prateedshetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@prateedshetty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prateedshetty)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427/3 "2018-07-04T09:35:23Z")

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I'm very new to ELK and I don't understand how ingest node can be used here. Can you please elaborate?

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### Author: ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427/4 "2018-07-04T10:16:28Z")

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I assume most likely you are looking for the grok processor: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/grok-processor.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/grok-processor.html)

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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: [August 1, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-overwrite-the-timestamp-with-the-value-in-the-log/138427/5 "2018-08-01T10:16:30Z")

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