# Rewrite Timestamp

### Description

The Rewrite Timestamp processor can be used to write the value from the Time field of a telemetry entry into a string value.

### Supported Types

| Metrics | Logs | Traces |
| ------- | ---- | ------ |
| ✓       | ✓    | ✓      |

### Configuration

<table><thead><tr><th width="193.99609375">Field</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Condition</td><td>A condition that determines when this processor is applied.</td></tr><tr><td>Target Field Type</td><td>The telemetry field type where the newly formatted timestamp will be placed.</td></tr><tr><td>Target Field</td><td>The target field to place the result into. May only be blank if Body is selected for the Target Field Type.</td></tr><tr><td>Timestamp Format</td><td>The ctime variable based timestamp format to write.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Example Configuration(s)

Rewriting the timestamp of a syslog message that has first been parsed using regex, and the timestamp value parsed into the Time field.

**Processors**

This processor is frequently part of a chain that involves parsing the original message, parsing the timestamp into the Time field, rewriting that timestamp from the Time field back into a string, and then concatenating the parsed strings back together.

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**Attributes created by the processors above**

The `new_ts` field is what was created by the rewrite.

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**Rewrite Timestamp Processor Config**

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