# Index name with date and time of day

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124 "2020-06-08T06:15:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Youssef\_SBAI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/youssef_sbai/32/64242_2.png) [@Youssef\_SBAI](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youssef_SBAI)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/1 "2020-06-08T06:15:13Z")

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Hello,  
is it possible to have the index name with date and time of day for example logstash-2020.06.08.08: 13???

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/2 "2020-06-08T06:31:08Z")

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Why would you want this? How are you ingesting data?

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**Author:** ![Youssef\_SBAI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/youssef_sbai/32/64242_2.png) [@Youssef\_SBAI](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youssef_SBAI)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/3 "2020-06-08T06:43:15Z")

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I use file beat and Logstash to ingestion data

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/4 "2020-06-08T06:53:05Z")

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Adding hour and minute to the index name would result in new indices getting created every minute. Having large number of small indices and shards is a common problem and very inefficient, so you do not want to do this.

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**Author:** ![Youssef\_SBAI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/youssef_sbai/32/64242_2.png) [@Youssef\_SBAI](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youssef_SBAI)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/5 "2020-06-08T07:02:18Z")

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it is possible to have this index names 2020.06.08.08??? I use this index =\> "\<logstash-{now/d}\>"  
for index name with date of day

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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:** [July 6, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-with-date-and-time-of-day/236124/6 "2020-07-06T07:02:22Z")

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