Kibana field is date, not string

I am trying to create an index in Elasticsearch (via developer console of Kibana). The index looks like this:

PUT _template/example_index
{
  "index_patterns": ["example_index*"],
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 5,
    "number_of_replicas": 1
  },
  "mappings": {
    "track": {
      "properties": {
        "hash": {
          "type": "keyword"
        },
        "time": {
          "type": "date"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

After that I put some data in Elasticsearch, and I create the index in Kibana via management -> index patterns -> create index; it will show the 'time' as a string field. It does not find any time fields at all.

The time in the added documents look like this: 1537185147182

The created index and the index used to insert the data had a different name. Thus elasticsearch uses the dynamic way, and creates it how it likes.

Changing the index name fixed this.

Glad that you reported back the solution that worked for you.

Cheers
Rashmi

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