# Timelion sees no documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978 "2017-01-09T17:31:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BGarber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BGarber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BGarber)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978/1 "2017-01-09T17:31:39Z")

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I'm probably missing something obvious, but despite having millions of documents indexes, timelion seems to only see 120 from a few months ago.

[![](https://i.imgur.com/j5Pn9Ft.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/j5Pn9Ft.png)  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/ykRRpp9.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/ykRRpp9.png)

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**Author:** ![BGarber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BGarber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BGarber)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978/2 "2017-01-09T18:16:57Z")

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More of a self-reply here, I had to go into Kibana advanced settings and change the `timelion:es.timefield` from `@timestamp` to `timestamp`.

Is `@timestamp` an older elastic thing?

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978/3 "2017-01-09T19:08:33Z")

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You can specify a timefield in the es function too, if you want to keep the default: `.es(q=*, timefield=timestamp)`. @timestamp probably comes from a default used by logstash, it's commonly used as the timestamps's field name.

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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 6, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-sees-no-documents/70978/4 "2017-02-06T19:08:33Z")

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