title: Can I use Kibana to parse the message field
body: <p>We are using ELK and shoving all syslogs into Elasticsearch.</p>
  
  <p>I have a log type like whose message field looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"message":"11/04/2016 12:04:09 PM|There are now 8 active connections#015"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to use Kibana to parse the message to get the number of active connections over time and then graph that in Kibana.</p>
  
  <p>Am I thinking of how to do this correctly? 
  The reading I've done seems to be telling me to set up a filter in Logstash...but that seems like the wrong place to parse the message field for this single log line type, given the amount of messages/logs and message/log types getting sent through Logstash.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to parse the message field for this number and then graph that count over time in Kibana?</p>