# Time Filter not shown in Kibana menu bar

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454 "2016-01-06T01:03:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mingho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@mingho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mingho)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454/1 "2016-01-06T01:03:35Z")

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Hello,

I am able to use logstash (2.1.0) with my custom patterns to send my log files to Elasticsearch (2.1.1). I am also able to view and search my data in Kibana 4.3.1. Everything works it is supposed to be. Since I need to store my logs into its own index in ES, I only add one option: "index =\> "myIndex" ,as show below, in my logstash config file:

filter {  
grok {  
patterns\_dir =\> "./patterns"  
match =\> { "message" =\> "%{MYDATE:datetime} %{WORD:hostname} %{NUMBER:statusnum}:%{RWORD:status} %{GREEDYDATA:msg}" }  
}  
date { match =\> ["datetime", "YYYY:MM:dd:HH:mm:ss.SSS"] }  
}

output {  
elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["myServer:9200"]  
index =\> "myIndex"  
}  
}

When I select my index "myIndex" in Kibana, I am able to see my event BUT I don't see the Time Filter on the top right side of the menu bar! I am not able to search by time range! What did I do wrong?

Thanks.  
Ming

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454/2 "2016-01-06T01:15:50Z")

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If you are storing time based data, why not use time based logs?

Also when you setup the index pattern did you tell KB it uses a timestamp?

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**Author:** ![mingho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@mingho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mingho)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454/3 "2016-01-06T18:36:53Z")

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Ah, I didn't check the box for time based event. It's working now. Thanks for your help.  
Ming

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-not-shown-in-kibana-menu-bar/38454/4 "2017-07-06T14:05:40Z")

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