Issues with JMeter and Elasticsearch+Kibana

Hello there guys,
I began to work with elastic stack since last week and I encountered a lot of problems but that's probably because I'm a newbie with those kind of tools.
I need to configure ElasticSearch and Kibana to collect and visualize datas from JMeter explorations.
I'm using a modified version of JMeter's backend listener to send data straight to ElasticSearch
I can set a name for the newly created index, address of the machine where elasticsearch is running, timestamp format.
I can link and visualize all sent datas to Kibana without any problem but I'm facing a major issue:
I'm just not able to make ElasticSearch recognise the Timestamp field as a Date.
JMeter sends this field as an epoch, long type, and elasticsearch does not recognise a date, type of timestamp field results as Long.

I obviously need that timestamp datas as I'm looking to use them to evaluate my app 's performances, i tried to use a scripted field to recreate the timestamp as date but, being calculated after indexing, visualizations cannot use it as main time filter.

My questions

  1. Is there a way to make ElasticSearch "see" the timestamp field as Date type and not Long type?
  2. Is there a way to make all the data I send from JMeter "filtered" through some kind of template which may help me keep my recordings organized??

I read all i could from documentation, tutorials and so..but all solution i found refers to previous versions of ES where timestamp was automatically set for every document at the moment of indexing.
I know ES is able to recognise a Date from an epoch format but i really don't know how to proceed.

Remember that you're talking to someone who didn't know ElasticStack last week so..try to be more explanatory as possible..

Thank you very much!!!

Daniel

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