# Increase the resolution of Elastic timestamps to nanoseconds
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 24, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227 "2015-06-24T04:46:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@anoban](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anoban)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227/1 "2015-06-24T04:46:17Z")
I am not sure this is possible currently, but if not what would be required to do so?
All my events have nanoseconds timestamps, and at the moment I split the us/ns into a new variable so I dont lose the info. However it makes the zooming in to the kibana timeline a lot less interesting.
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### Author:  [@Joshua\_Rich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joshua_Rich)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227/2 "2015-06-24T05:00:00Z")
Currently, Elasticsearch is limited to millisecond precision, see [this GH issue](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/10005). Until that issue is resolved, Kibana won't be able to nicely support any greater precision. Using a strategy like you are already using is certainly your best bet for not losing that valuable extra precision.
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### Author:  [@lucifer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lucifer)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227/3 "2016-06-07T10:09:06Z")
Did anyone Find a solution for this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-the-resolution-of-elastic-timestamps-to-nanoseconds/24227/4 "2017-07-05T22:45:41Z")