String to date time

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1

My log pattern is as
|other|test|test1|20160808134300

i have chopped these pipe separated value in different fields and have fields like
field0 = other
field1 = test
field2 = test1
field3 = 20160808134300

field3 is time stamp of log 2016 08 08 13 43 00 I want to convert this field into date and time .

2

Use the date filter.

3

yeah I have gone for same I wrote this

date {
    match => [ "field3", "MMM dd YYYY HH:mm:ss" ]
  }

But I didn't find any change and some where I read that date accept array as input.

4 
match => [ "field3", "MMM dd YYYY HH:mm:ss" ]

But that date pattern clearly doesn't match the contents of field3.

5

so I need to write this ?

date {
    match => [ "field3", "YYYYMMddHHmmss" ]
  }
6

Why don't you try it out?

7

I tried

match => [ "field3", "YYYYMMddHHmmss" ]

but not working

8

What's the error message in the log? The date filter always logs parse errors.

9

There is no error message in logs.

10

Please show an example of an event as produced by a stdout { codec => rubydebug } output.