# Issues with JMeter and Elasticsearch+Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 16, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-jmeter-and-elasticsearch-kibana/199667 "2019-09-16T13:13:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DarthRKO89](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/darthrko89/32/45452_2.png) [@DarthRKO89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DarthRKO89)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-jmeter-and-elasticsearch-kibana/199667/1 "2019-09-16T13:13:05Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-jmeter-and-elasticsearch-kibana/199667/2 "2019-10-14T13:13:06Z")
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