# Packetbeat does not show data when Absolute timestamp is entered?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-does-not-show-data-when-absolute-timestamp-is-entered/143112>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [August 6, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-does-not-show-data-when-absolute-timestamp-is-entered/143112 "2018-08-06T07:52:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blason/32/42284_2.png) [@Blason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Blason)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-does-not-show-data-when-absolute-timestamp-is-entered/143112/1 "2018-08-06T07:52:08Z")

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Hi Team,

I am unable to query the packetbeat when Absolute timestamp is entered. My search returns nothing while it perfectly works with Relative or Quick timestamp.

What could be the issue?

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-does-not-show-data-when-absolute-timestamp-is-entered/143112/2 "2018-08-14T15:33:32Z")

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Where and how are you querying? Are you going through Kibana by using a Lucene query? Or are you hitting the Elasticsearch `_search` API directly?

What's the query that you are using? How did you format the date? These are some working examples of Lucene queries that can be used in Kibana's search bar.

`@timestamp:"2018-08-14T15:23:11.719Z"`

This one is less precise.

`@timestamp:"2018-08-14T15:20:14Z"`

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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:** [September 11, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-does-not-show-data-when-absolute-timestamp-is-entered/143112/3 "2018-09-11T15:36:52Z")

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