in flume-elasticsearch-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/elasticsearch/TimeBasedIndexNameBuilder.java [61:67]
public String getIndexName(Event event) {
TimestampedEvent timestampedEvent = new TimestampedEvent(event);
long timestamp = timestampedEvent.getTimestamp();
String realIndexPrefix = BucketPath.escapeString(indexPrefix, event.getHeaders());
return new StringBuilder(realIndexPrefix).append('-')
.append(fastDateFormat.format(timestamp)).toString();
}