I'm having some issues getting elasticsearch to interpret an epoch millis timestamp field. I have some old bro logs I want to ingest and have them be in the proper orders and spacing. Thanks to Logstash filter to convert "$epoch.$microsec" to "$epoch_millis" I've been able to convert the field holding the bro timestamp to the proper length of digits. I've also inserted a mapping into elasticsearch for that field, and it says that the type is "Date" with the format being the default. However, when I go and look at the entries it still has a little "t" next to it instead of a little clock. And hence I can't use it for my filter view reference in kibana.
Anyone have any thoughts or have dealt with this before? Unfortunately it's a stand alone system so I would have to manually enter any of the configs I'm using.
I did try and convert my field "ts" back to an integer after using the method described in the link above. So It should be a logstash integer before hitting the elasticsearch mapping.