How to change beat output timestamp include timezone info

[varun1992 (Varun)]

I think by default beat timestamp output is UTC time.

Is there a way to change time to local time in all the beats ?

I tried add_locale, but it didn't work

[pmercado (PM)]

Hi @varun1992,

would this processor https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/add-locale.html help for your case?

[varun1992 (Varun)]

but that not changing the @timestamp field date to local, it's value still UTC.
How to change timestamp field value to local time

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

All fields of type date like a timestamps are stored in Elasticsearch in UTC. They displayed in Kibana in the local timezone.

Here is a short explanation