# How to take EPOCH time as @timestamp **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673 **Category:** Logstash **Created:** [October 21, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673 "2015-10-21T12:53:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/1 "2015-10-21T12:53:48Z")
Hi Experts, I have a filed which has EPOCH time in it e.g "1443463933000". I want to use it as a @ timestamp filed in kibana . So this is what I have done . **Step 1** --\> In logstash i used a date filter and set target to this filed i.e date { match =\> ["rt","UNIX"] target =\> "rt" } **Step 2** In mapping I set this field to date type i.e "mapping": { "rt": { "type": "date", "format": "dateOptionalTime" } } **Step3** Now when I am selecting index based on this time in Kibana i got nothing , kibana says no result found . Is there anything which I need to take care of ? Thanks VG ---
### Author: ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/2 "2015-10-21T14:49:24Z")
Any Suggestion please ? ---
### Author: ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/3 "2015-10-21T15:14:19Z")
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### Author: ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/4 "2015-10-21T15:29:51Z")
It looks like you should be using [UNIX\_MS](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html#plugins-filters-date-match) in your match statement as your number appears to be epoch plus milliseconds. ---
### Author: ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/5 "2015-10-21T15:31:03Z")
Thank You Aaron, It works for me, but I am getting kind of warnings in LS console ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b178eddc9796f92c990b1137f27a529f31e41464.png) ---
### Author: ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek) #### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/6 "2015-10-21T15:46:36Z")
That's a completely different topic, there. From what I can see, it appears that non-UTF8 data is being sent. You may need to fix your input to coerce a type, or something. Again, please ask that in a different topic as it's no longer relevant to this one. ---
### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system) #### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-epoch-time-as-timestamp/32673/7 "2017-07-06T05:25:53Z")