# Indexing Problem in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493 "2018-06-26T18:30:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![rahulsaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rahulsaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulsaini)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/1 "2018-06-26T18:30:31Z")

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I'm getting data from cloud watch but my date field have values in different formats how can i get those values without getting the field type error ?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/2 "2018-06-26T18:31:18Z")

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Use a date filter to parse the strings and convert the timestamp into a canonical format?

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**Author:** ![rahulsaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rahulsaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulsaini)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/3 "2018-06-26T19:08:33Z")

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I'm getting this error when i take the data in date field

"status"=\>400, "error"=\>{"type"=\>"illegal\_argument\_exception", "reason"=\>"mapper [dimensions.time.label] of different type, current\_type [d ate] , merged\_type [text]"}}}}

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/4 "2018-06-26T19:34:55Z")

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Yeah, that's what happens when you haven't aligned the date format. The field has been mapped as a date but you're trying to index a document whose field has another format that can't be crammed into the field.

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**Author:** ![rahulsaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rahulsaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulsaini)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/5 "2018-06-26T19:37:53Z")

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Okay I'll try to make it work and let you know if i face some errors

Thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![rahulsaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rahulsaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulsaini)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/6 "2018-06-26T20:08:37Z")

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> [@rahulsaini](#):
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> dimensions.time.label

I tried using this but didn't get any success please help me out

filter {  
date {  
match =\> [ "dimensions.time.label", "MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss",  
"MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss", "ISO8601" ]  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/7 "2018-06-26T20:17:58Z")

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Seriously, how do you expect us to be able to help with your date parsing when we don't know what your dates look like? Use a `stdout { codec => rubydebug }` output to dump the raw events.

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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 24, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-problem-in-kibana/137493/8 "2018-07-24T20:17:58Z")

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