# Kibana4 adding index patterns

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 27, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357 "2015-07-27T17:49:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dopey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dopey/32/3868_2.png) [@dopey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dopey)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/1 "2015-07-27T17:49:26Z")

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I have ugraded to kibana4 and by default kibana was able to find and add two of my indices (logstash-[date], and another), however, I am having an issue adding the rest of the indices. I can go to Settings -\> Indices -\> "Add New Index +", but after I type the name of the index kibana cannot seem to resolve a timestamp value. The drop-down for the "Time-Field Name" has no selectable values. Any ideas on what I may need to do to populate that field?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/2 "2015-07-27T22:57:35Z")

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Are you sure those indices have timestamp mapped fields?

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**Author:** ![dopey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dopey/32/3868_2.png) [@dopey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dopey)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/3 "2015-07-28T20:55:26Z")

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Hey Mark,

The events in the indices do have timestamp attributes but they are just unix timestamps stored as string e.g.

{  
...  
, "time": "1438116761767"  
, ...  
}.

Kibana does not show "time" as an option for the timestamp filed. In other events we use a timestamp like "2005-06-26" and kibana does show this attribute as an option. Is there something specific I need to be doing with my timestamp values to indicate to kibana that these can be treated as time?

cheers

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/4 "2015-07-28T21:43:42Z")

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Well if it's not stored as a timestamp formatted field then KB won't know it's a timestamp.  
You need to fix that in your mapping.

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**Author:** ![dopey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dopey/32/3868_2.png) [@dopey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dopey)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/5 "2015-07-29T17:19:18Z")

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Ah, yea. That makes sense. thanks!

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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 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-adding-index-patterns/26357/6 "2017-07-06T14:15:40Z")

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