# Unable to get the timed value from log line or scripted fields on kibana elastic **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 24, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058 "2018-11-24T05:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yashraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/aeb1de/32.png) [@yashraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashraj)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058/1 "2018-11-24T05:50:33Z")
Hi, I am using ELK version 6.1.1 with in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The client side of this is for gathering analytics by graph and is already present in angular 4 framework. All the analytical graph visualization are coming from embedded Iframes which changes dynamically whenever duration is changed. I am sending the time duration string inside the iframe graphs urls to get the updated graphs according the duration. Problem Statement:- I am having some scripted fields which perfom some calculations of the fields got from log line. Now, while creating visualizations according to a duration say 6 months from now, I would need the value of the scripted field which belongs to the start time of the selected duration i.e. of date-time which is 6 months from now. Further using this scripted value (of a particular time) and sum of other scripted fields the visulaization would get complete. Thus the visualization should get updated according to the selected duration i.e. on day, 1 week, 1 month, 6 month etc. Can anyone please suggest any way of getting the scripted field value which belongs to a specific time and use it in my Kibana visualizations? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058/2 "2018-11-24T06:28:52Z")
What if you compute the fields at index time instead of using scripts at search time? ---
**Author:** ![yashraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/aeb1de/32.png) [@yashraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashraj)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058/3 "2018-11-24T07:38:13Z")
Sorry, if am sounding too vague but I am not clear about the index time that you are referring to. Can you please explain it briefly? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058/4 "2018-11-24T08:23:48Z")
Instead of indexing a document which does not contain all the fields you need, you can modify your document before indexing it to add the missing fields. You can use a script processor (look for Ingest script processor in documentation). This will be then much faster but also will give you much more flexibility to do your queries. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-the-timed-value-from-log-line-or-scripted-fields-on-kibana-elastic/158058/5 "2018-12-22T08:23:56Z")
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