Apply default Kibana timestamp format to rollup index pattern

[alexfrancoeur]

We can create Index Patterns and Rollup Index Patterns.

If we have a rollup index, and we create an index pattern, we can see the date properly formatted in Kibana in the _source field. An example follows for the field timestamp.date_histogram.timestamp:

However, if we create an rollup index pattern, the discover window shows the epoch time for the field:

Customer request is that Rollup Index Patterns apply the date format when showing the contents in Discover - by extension, I suppose any other format as well.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app

[carterkraft]

This issue would be very important for us as well. Thanks

[pedrohro1992]

Guys, any update on this feature?

[norris-daniel]

Has anyone found a workaround for this? I think it's causing probs for Grafana trying to use the epoch timestamps.

[ghudgins]

we are currently working against plans (see phase 3.3) to fully integrate rollups and downsampling into Elasticsearch indexes more directly vs. having to use the tech preview / experimental feature to spin up a new index via a job that has a limited support for Elasticsearch endpoints. the net result will be you downsample "in place" and can even downsample downsampled data. the jobs will run extremely quickly compared to today's implementation and has a more complete support for the query/endpoints that indexes today. fyi the configuration for this new approach is planned and being implemented as an aspect of your ILM policy.

because this new version of downsampling is just another index this means you'll be able to leverage the full power of data views (formerly known as index patterns) on top of downsampled indexes including this and many other features that don't work well with today's downsampling approach.

we're not too far off from this change...expect more blogs and info from us when we get close to releasing it in tech preview.

[kertal]

Closing this because it's not planned to be resolved in the foreseeable future. It will be tracked in our Icebox and will be re-opened if our priorities change. Feel free to re-open if you think it should be melted sooner.