# Sorting events with identical millis timestamps by order events were recorded
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-millis-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/297758
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-millis-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/297758 "2022-02-21T13:07:52Z")
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### Author:  [@bublik-hpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bublik-hpt)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-millis-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/297758/1 "2022-02-21T13:07:52Z")
Hi i have logs where multiple lines have the same timestamp. In Kibana discover they are in opposite order (if i follow the timestamp) then in the logfile, but when I check surrounding documents they are in correct order. Is it possible to see documents in discovery in correct (time based) order?
example:
logfile:
```auto
2022-02-21T13:52:15.840 [bookie-io-1-7] INFO org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.AuthHandler - Authentication success on server side
2022-02-21T13:52:15.840 [bookie-io-1-7] INFO org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieRequestHandler - Channel connected [id: 0x3b9d22a3, L:/10.15.24.43:3181 - R:/192.168.255.94:38216]
2022-02-21T13:52:15.840 [bookie-io-1-7] INFO org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieRequestHandler - Channels disconnected: [id: 0x3b9d22a3, L:/10.15.24.43:3181 ! R:/192.168.255.94:38216]
```
discover:
surrounding docs:
Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-millis-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/297758/2 "2022-02-24T09:19:00Z")
Hi and welcome to our community
So surrounding docs are sorting by `timefield` and `_doc`, Discover itself doesn't.
We might implement this in the future:
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> If you have huge amounts of data with many lots of documents sharing the same ti…mestamp up to the millisecond you might wanna use \`\_doc\` for faster sorting. We should consider adding an option for the user to sort by \`\_doc\`
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> Knowhow about \`\_doc\`:
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> \> \_doc has no real use-case besides being the most efficient sort order. So if you don’t care about the order in which documents are returned, then you should sort by \_doc. This especially helps when scrolling.
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> We should also provide the option to use a tiebreaker in Discover (by default \`\_doc\`), here's an older PR for that #32426
The only way to currently solve this is if you have an own sequence field you can sort by additionally. Or we also support sorting by a timestamp with nanoseconds
> **[Date nanoseconds field type | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.0\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date_nanos.html)**
But of course most loggers don't support this
Best,
Matthias
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-millis-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/297758/3 "2022-03-24T09:19:40Z")
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