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ES|QL DATE_EXTRACT function

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  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

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Extracts parts of a date, like year, month, day, hour.

Embedded
Embedded
datePart
Part of the date to extract. Can be: aligned_day_of_week_in_month, aligned_day_of_week_in_year, aligned_week_of_month, aligned_week_of_year, ampm_of_day, clock_hour_of_ampm, clock_hour_of_day, day_of_month, day_of_week, day_of_year, epoch_day, era, hour_of_ampm, hour_of_day, instant_seconds, micro_of_day, micro_of_second, milli_of_day, milli_of_second, minute_of_day, minute_of_hour, month_of_year, nano_of_day, nano_of_second, offset_seconds, proleptic_month, second_of_day, second_of_minute, year, or year_of_era. Refer to java.time.temporal.ChronoField for a description of these values. If null, the function returns null.
date

Date expression. If null, the function returns null.

Extracts parts of a date, like year, month, day, hour.

datePart date result
keyword date long
keyword date_nanos long
text date long
text date_nanos long
ES|QL
ROW date = DATE_PARSE("yyyy-MM-dd", "2022-05-06")
| EVAL year = DATE_EXTRACT("year", date)
date:date year:long
2022-05-06T00:00:00.000Z 2022

Find all events that occurred outside of business hours (before 9 AM or after 5PM), on any given date:

ES|QL
FROM sample_data
| WHERE DATE_EXTRACT("hour_of_day", @timestamp) < 9
    AND DATE_EXTRACT("hour_of_day", @timestamp) >= 17
@timestamp:date client_ip:ip event_duration:long message:keyword