Gets the week number within a year of a timestamp (a value from 1 to 53). The week number is as defined by ISO 8601: Weeks start on a Monday and belong to the year which contains Thursday (or, equivalently, contains the majority of the week days).

ParameterTypeRequiredDefault ValueDescription
asstringoptional[a] _weekOfYear The name of the output field.
field[b]stringoptional[a] @timestamp The name of the input field.
timezonestringoptional[a]   The time offset to use, for example, -01:00. If not specified, the query's offset will be used.
timezoneFieldstringoptional[a] @timezone The name of the field containing the timezone to use, if not specified the query's timezone will be used. This is ignored if the timezone parameter is passed as well. If this is not defined the timezone offset of the query will be used.

[a] Optional parameters use their default value unless explicitly set.

[b] The parameter name field can be omitted.

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Extract Week Number From Timestamp

Get the ISO week number from a timestamp using the time:weekOfYear() function

Query
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time:weekOfYear(timestamp, as=week)
Introduction

In this example, the time:weekOfYear() function is used to extract the week number from a specific timestamp 2025-08-27 08:51:51.312, demonstrating how to get the ISO week value from a datetime.

Step-by-Step

  1. Starting with the source repository events.

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    time:weekOfYear(timestamp, as=week)

    Extracts the ISO week number from the @timestamp field and returns the result in a new field named week. If the as parameter is not specified, the result is returned in a field named _weekOfYear as default.

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Summary and Results

The query is used to extract the week number from a timestamp, which is useful for analyzing events at a weekly level following international standards.

This query is useful, for example, to analyze weekly patterns, group events by ISO week, or investigate trends across weeks of the year.

Sample output from the incoming example data:

@timestampweek
2025-08-27 08:51:51.31235

The result shows how the time:weekOfYear() function extracts the week number (in this case 35) from the timestamp, indicating it is the 35th week of 2025 according to ISO 8601 standards.

For visualizing this data, consider using a Bar Chart widget to show event distribution across weeks, or a Heat Map widget to display activity patterns throughout the year by week. The time:weekOfYear() function is often used with other time functions like time:year() and time:dayOfWeek() for complete date analysis.