diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvReaderSettings.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvReaderSettings.java
index 2f3ab36..4f4c2df 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvReaderSettings.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvReaderSettings.java
@@ -12,30 +12,45 @@ public class CsvReaderSettings {
 
     private Set<String> ignoreColumnNames = new HashSet<String>();
 
+    private String timeColumn;
+
     public CsvReaderSettings() {
         separator = ',';
+        timeColumn = "@timestamp";
     }
 
-    private CsvReaderSettings(final byte separator, final Collection<String> ignoreColumns) {
+    private CsvReaderSettings(final String timeColumn, final byte separator, final Collection<String> ignoreColumns) {
 
+        this.timeColumn = timeColumn;
         this.separator = separator;
         this.ignoreColumnNames.addAll(ignoreColumns);
     }
 
-    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final byte separator, final String... ignoreColumnNames) {
-        return new CsvReaderSettings(separator, List.of(ignoreColumnNames));
+    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final String timeColumn, final byte separator,
+            final String... ignoreColumnNames) {
+        return new CsvReaderSettings(timeColumn, separator, List.of(ignoreColumnNames));
     }
 
-    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final char separator, final String... ignoreColumnNames) {
-        return CsvReaderSettings.create(separator, List.of(ignoreColumnNames));
+    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final String timeColumn, final char separator,
+            final String... ignoreColumnNames) {
+        return CsvReaderSettings.create(timeColumn, separator, List.of(ignoreColumnNames));
     }
 
-    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final char separator, final Collection<String> ignoreColumnNames) {
+    public static CsvReaderSettings create(final String timeColumn, final char separator,
+            final Collection<String> ignoreColumnNames) {
         Preconditions.checkTrue(separator == (byte) separator,
                 "Only separators that fulfill separator == (byte)separator are supported. "
                         + "This restriction is because the parsing algorithm skips the overhead of "
                         + "translating bytes to characters.");
-        return new CsvReaderSettings((byte) separator, ignoreColumnNames);
+        return new CsvReaderSettings(timeColumn, (byte) separator, ignoreColumnNames);
+    }
+
+    public String getTimeColumn() {
+        return timeColumn;
+    }
+
+    public void setTimeColumn(final String timeColumn) {
+        this.timeColumn = timeColumn;
     }
 
     public byte getSeparator() {
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformer.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformer.java
index 8e7567b..1ddd479 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformer.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformer.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class CsvToEntryTransformer {
 
         int[] columns = null;
         final byte[] buffer = new byte[4096 * 16];
-        final int keyTimestamp = Tags.STRING_COMPRESSOR.put("@timestamp");
+        final int keyTimestamp = Tags.STRING_COMPRESSOR.put(settings.getTimeColumn());
         final int keyDuration = Tags.STRING_COMPRESSOR.put("duration");
         final FastISODateParser dateParser = new FastISODateParser();
 
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/IngestionHandler.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/IngestionHandler.java
index 786f002..795ce26 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/IngestionHandler.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/IngestionHandler.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public final class IngestionHandler implements Callable<Void> {
         } else {
             in.reset();
             final CsvToEntryTransformer csvTransformer = new CsvToEntryTransformer(queue,
-                    CsvReaderSettings.create(','));
+                    CsvReaderSettings.create("@timestamp", ','));
             csvTransformer.readCSV(in);
         }
     }
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformerTest.java b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformerTest.java
index c68ba7b..133eb9d 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformerTest.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/CsvToEntryTransformerTest.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class CsvToEntryTransformerTest {
                     + dateB.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME) + ",2,tagValue\n";
 
             final ArrayBlockingQueue<Entries> queue = db.getQueue();
-            final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create(',');
+            final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create("@timestamp", ',');
             final CsvToEntryTransformer csvToEntryTransformer = new CsvToEntryTransformer(queue, settings);
             csvToEntryTransformer.readCSV(new ByteArrayInputStream(csv.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
             queue.put(Entries.POISON);
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ public class CsvToEntryTransformerTest {
 
         try (PerformanceDb db = new PerformanceDb(dataDirectory)) {
             final LongList result = db.get(new Query("tag=tagValue", DateTimeRange.max())).singleGroup().flatMap();
-            Assert.assertEquals(result.size(), 4);
+            Assert.assertEquals(4, result.size());
 
-            Assert.assertEquals(result.get(0), dateA.toInstant().toEpochMilli());
-            Assert.assertEquals(result.get(1), 1);
+            Assert.assertEquals(dateA.toInstant().toEpochMilli(), result.get(0));
+            Assert.assertEquals(1, result.get(1));
 
-            Assert.assertEquals(result.get(2), dateB.toInstant().truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.MILLIS).toEpochMilli());
-            Assert.assertEquals(result.get(3), 2);
+            Assert.assertEquals(dateB.toInstant().truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.MILLIS).toEpochMilli(), result.get(2));
+            Assert.assertEquals(2, result.get(3));
         }
     }
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public class CsvToEntryTransformerTest {
                     + "2000-01-01T00:00:00.001Z,2,ignoreValue,ignoreValue,tagValue\n";
 
             final ArrayBlockingQueue<Entries> queue = db.getQueue();
-            final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create(',', "ignoredColumn");
+            final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create("@timestamp", ',', "ignoredColumn");
             final CsvToEntryTransformer csvToEntryTransformer = new CsvToEntryTransformer(queue, settings);
             csvToEntryTransformer.readCSV(new ByteArrayInputStream(csv.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
             queue.put(Entries.POISON);
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbControllerTest.java b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbControllerTest.java
index 4cf3deb..aaf562b 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbControllerTest.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbControllerTest.java
@@ -43,14 +43,15 @@ public class PdbControllerTest {
     public void testUploadCsv() {
 
         final String ignoredColumn = "ignoredColumn";
+        final String timeColumn = "time";
         final OffsetDateTime dateA = OffsetDateTime.now();
         final OffsetDateTime dateB = OffsetDateTime.now();
 
-        final String csv = "@timestamp,duration,tag," + ignoredColumn + "\n"//
+        final String csv = timeColumn + ",duration,tag," + ignoredColumn + "\n"//
                 + dateA.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME) + ",1,tagValue,ignoredValue\n"//
                 + dateB.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME) + ",2,tagValue,ignoredValue\n";
 
-        final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create(',', ignoredColumn);
+        final CsvReaderSettings settings = CsvReaderSettings.create(timeColumn, ',', ignoredColumn);
         uploadCsv(settings, csv);
         {
             final GroupResult groupResult = performanceDb.get(new Query("tag=tagValue", DateTimeRange.ofDay(dateA)))