# Metricbeat giving start\_time wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [March 29, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-giving-start-time-wrong/301011 "2022-03-29T22:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-giving-start-time-wrong/301011/1 "2022-03-29T22:04:04Z")
I have version 7.12.0 and some process is giving me wrong start time. here is example and I can only track it down when it is running ```auto h101024:/proc/3333% cat stat 3333 (adb9-ompi) S 3329 3333 2764 0 -1 1073741824 10339957 385781 53 15 5388012 14010 335 541 39 19 11 0 61553816 24042086400 4353272 18446744073709551615 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 528384 1098960639 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 5820 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ``` System tells me it started today ```auto h101024:/proc/3333% ps -eo pid,lstart |grep 3333 3333 Tue Mar 29 13:04:18 2022 ``` metricbeat give me this date `"start_time": "2016-11-10T20:15:37.000Z",` it is not happening to all of them. only sometime and randomly. can this be bug? anyone has encounter this? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-giving-start-time-wrong/301011/2 "2022-04-27T00:04:20Z")
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