How to configure Local time zone in apigee logs

[haider_imran]

Hi Everyone,

I ran "timedatectl" command on Edge UI server and found following:

Local time: Mon 2017-09-18 10:38:00 EAT

Universal time: Mon 2017-09-18 07:38:00

UTC RTC time: Mon 2017-09-18 07:38:00

Time zone: Africa/Nairobi (EAT, +0300)

NTP enabled: no NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no DST active: n/a

Now when I access any kind of logs the timezone in apigee logs are upon "Universal Time" how can i configure this to be according Local Time ? Is there any way ? Any property file carrying this configuration at apigee level ? Or is it has to be some Linux administrator configuration ?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

We set logs on UTC.

Very often we install Edge Private Cloud on multiple data centers expanding across timezone. UTC is considered standard good practice.

I recommend keeping on UTC. Analytics events and other relevant system events all will use UTC.