Kibana JSON input - String manipulation

[Alex_Buys]

I am trying to build a visualization on Kibana to display data per day of the week. In other words, count of transactions for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. over a duration.

I tried variations on the following JSON input filter on a histogram graph but nothing seemed to work:

{
  "script": "doc['@timestamp'].value.date.dayOfWeek().getAsText()"
}

I read somewhere that Kibana can't preform term aggregations on strings (only on numbers). Is this true?

Is it possible to retrieve the day of the week from a timestamp as depicted above in Kibana (I don't have access to ElasticSearch or logstash so I can't manipulate the data at those ends).

Using the latest version of Kibana

[tylersmalley]

Hey Alex,

Create a scripted field under the index pattern at Management > Index Patterns

name; dow
script: doc['@timestamp'].date.dayOfWeek

You can then use the dow in term aggregations. It will be an integer, but you could further enhance the script to return the name of the week.

[Alex_Buys]

Thank you - this solved my problem