https://cinhtau.de/2017/08/30/ingest-timestamp/

[utterances-bot]

Add automatic timestamp to new documents

In the past Elasticsearch could add automatically a timestamp field. Since Elasticsearch 5.x I have to use a pipeline to ingest that timestamp field to the d...

http://cinhtau.net/2017/08/30/ingest-timestamp/

[patrick-hermann-sva]

hi! i'm adding (w/ an ingest pipeline) an ingest_timestamp to each document on my index. poorly I cannot use the kibana date picker on that data. how is it possible to set the default time field on an ingest_timestamp? I tried a few thigs w/ the date format on the filed but nothing solved the issue so far. can you help me? thx pat

[cinhtau]

Sorry Patrick, I have no time. Better use for these questions the https://discuss.elastic.co/ site.

Elasticians tend to help quicker and faster, if you could provide information about version, etc and what you have tried so far.