Overwrite _event_time

Hello all! If I want to overwrite the _event_time with my own data, whats the best practice for that? Currently my ts is a milliseconds timestamp.

Hello, you need to use field mappings to accomplish this. _event_time is a special field in that every document must include it and it must be in a special format, so refer to these docs to see what format it must be in.

This should work for you if you’re creating this collection in the console:

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