# Time field not showing correct timestamp in Kibana logs

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-not-showing-correct-timestamp-in-kibana-logs/216781
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-not-showing-correct-timestamp-in-kibana-logs/216781 "2020-01-28T08:27:43Z")
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### Author: ![Aaditya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Aaditya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaditya)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-not-showing-correct-timestamp-in-kibana-logs/216781/1 "2020-01-28T08:27:43Z")

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Hi,

I am new to ELK and have an issue with my logs display. The 'Time' field on my kibana dashboard is showing the date/time when the log file was ingested rather than the actual **log** timestamp. Could you please assist in fixing the same?

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 ![Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 1.53.42 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/6/362a537b7ebadd852f4f4c1171ed70c8d3156724.png)

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### Author: ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-not-showing-correct-timestamp-in-kibana-logs/216781/2 "2020-01-28T12:58:15Z")

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You have to recreate your index pattern and set the @logtimestamp field as your time field, instead of @timestamp. It's in the second step of the wizard.

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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: [February 25, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-not-showing-correct-timestamp-in-kibana-logs/216781/3 "2020-02-25T12:58:17Z")

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