diff --git a/v2/datastream-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJson.java b/v2/datastream-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJson.java
index bd15edcba4..15de08e0bf 100644
--- a/v2/datastream-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJson.java
+++ b/v2/datastream-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJson.java
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ record = new ObjectMapper().readTree(c.element());
     outputObject.put("_metadata_stream", getStreamName(record));
     outputObject.put("_metadata_timestamp", getSourceTimestamp(record));
     outputObject.put("_metadata_read_timestamp", getMetadataTimestamp(record));
+    outputObject.put("_metadata_dataflow_timestamp", getCurrentTimestamp());
     outputObject.put("_metadata_read_method", record.get("read_method").textValue());
     outputObject.put("_metadata_source_type", sourceType);
 
@@ -234,4 +235,8 @@ private Boolean getMetadataIsDeleted(JsonNode record) {
 
     return value.booleanValue();
   }
+
+  private long getCurrentTimestamp() {
+    return System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/v2/datastream-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJsonTest.java b/v2/datastream-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJsonTest.java
index 3794820df9..5faaeb55ca 100644
--- a/v2/datastream-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJsonTest.java
+++ b/v2/datastream-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/teleport/v2/datastream/transforms/FormatDatastreamJsonToJsonTest.java
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
  */
 package com.google.cloud.teleport.v2.datastream.transforms;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 import com.google.cloud.teleport.v2.coders.FailsafeElementCoder;
 import com.google.cloud.teleport.v2.values.FailsafeElement;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
@@ -23,6 +27,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testing.PAssert;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testing.TestPipeline;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Create;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.DoFn;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;
 import org.junit.Rule;
@@ -59,6 +64,9 @@ public void testProcessElement_validJson() {
     FailsafeElement<String, String> expectedElement =
         FailsafeElement.of(EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_RECORD, EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_RECORD);
 
+    FailsafeElementCoder<String, String> failsafeElementCoder =
+        FailsafeElementCoder.of(StringUtf8Coder.of(), StringUtf8Coder.of());
+
     PCollection<FailsafeElement<String, String>> pCollection =
         pipeline
             .apply("CreateInput", Create.of(EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_JSON))
@@ -70,7 +78,9 @@ public void testProcessElement_validJson() {
                             .withStreamName("my-stream")
                             .withRenameColumnValues(renameColumns)
                             .withLowercaseSourceColumns(false)))
-            .setCoder(FailsafeElementCoder.of(StringUtf8Coder.of(), StringUtf8Coder.of()));
+            .setCoder(failsafeElementCoder)
+            .apply("RemoveTimestampProperty", ParDo.of(new RemoveTimestampPropertyFn()))
+            .setCoder(failsafeElementCoder);
 
     PAssert.that(pCollection).containsInAnyOrder(expectedElement);
 
@@ -85,6 +95,9 @@ public void testProcessElement_hashRowId() {
         FailsafeElement.of(
             EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_RECORD_WITH_HASH_ROWID, EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_RECORD_WITH_HASH_ROWID);
 
+    FailsafeElementCoder<String, String> failsafeElementCoder =
+        FailsafeElementCoder.of(StringUtf8Coder.of(), StringUtf8Coder.of());
+
     PCollection<FailsafeElement<String, String>> pCollection =
         pipeline
             .apply("CreateInput", Create.of(EXAMPLE_DATASTREAM_JSON))
@@ -97,10 +110,30 @@ public void testProcessElement_hashRowId() {
                             .withRenameColumnValues(renameColumns)
                             .withHashRowId(true)
                             .withLowercaseSourceColumns(false)))
-            .setCoder(FailsafeElementCoder.of(StringUtf8Coder.of(), StringUtf8Coder.of()));
+            .setCoder(failsafeElementCoder)
+            .apply("RemoveDataflowTimestampProperty", ParDo.of(new RemoveTimestampPropertyFn()))
+            .setCoder(failsafeElementCoder);
 
     PAssert.that(pCollection).containsInAnyOrder(expectedElement);
 
     pipeline.run();
   }
+
+  // Static nested DoFn class to remove timestamp property
+  static class RemoveTimestampPropertyFn
+      extends DoFn<FailsafeElement<String, String>, FailsafeElement<String, String>> {
+
+    @ProcessElement
+    public void processElement(
+        @Element FailsafeElement<String, String> element,
+        OutputReceiver<FailsafeElement<String, String>> out)
+        throws JsonProcessingException {
+      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+      JsonNode changeEvent = mapper.readTree(element.getPayload());
+      if (changeEvent instanceof ObjectNode) {
+        ((ObjectNode) changeEvent).remove("_metadata_dataflow_timestamp");
+      }
+      out.output(FailsafeElement.of(changeEvent.toString(), changeEvent.toString()));
+    }
+  }
 }