# How to change Logtash internal/system logs to local timezone?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687 "2020-08-12T09:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![aksshm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@aksshm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aksshm)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687/1 "2020-08-12T09:16:09Z")

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we are running logstash as a pod in k8s, we're trying to change the timezone of logstash internal/system logs.  
by default logs are coming in utc timezone

ex:

```auto
INFO ] 2020-08-12 07:26:19.757 [Api Webserver] agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
[INFO] 2020-08-12 07:26:19.852 [[main]<kafka] AppInfoParser - Kafka version : 2.1.0
[INFO] 2020-08-12 07:26:19.853 [[main]<kafka] AppInfoParser - Kafka commitId : eec43959745f444f
[WARN] 2020-08-12 07:26:20.164 [Ruby-0-Thread-12: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-kafka-8.3.1/lib/logstash/inputs/kafka.rb:244] NetworkClient - [Consumer clientId=logstash-0, groupId=logstash] Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2 : {VOLTHACTL-LOG=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE, FILEBEAT-LOG=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE, KAFKA-LOG=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE}
[INFO] 2020-08-12 07:26:20.165 [Ruby-0-Thread-12: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-kafka-8.3.1/lib/logstash/inputs/kafka.rb:244] Metadata - Cluster ID: 3URWkrFCSfCMuxtQKOgm-g
[INFO] 2020-08-12 07:26:20.167 [Ruby-0-Thread-12: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-kafka-8.3.1/lib/logstash/inputs/kafka.rb:244] AbstractCoordinator - [Consumer clientId=logstash-0, groupId=logstash] Discovered group coordinator internal-kafka-0.internal-kafka-headless.default.svc.cluster.local:9092 (id: 2147482646 rack: null)

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how to change timezone?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687/2 "2020-08-12T14:48:50Z")

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The logstash logs will be in whatever the local timezone of the server is. Changing that is a k8s question, not a logstash question.

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**Author:** ![aksshm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@aksshm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aksshm)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687/3 "2020-08-13T05:40:55Z")

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Hi, localtimezone is IST i.e host machine, still it didn't work.  
as logstash is using log4j2 library for logging, i made changes in that file(log4j2.properties) and it worked.  
thanks,

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-logtash-internal-system-logs-to-local-timezone/244687/4 "2020-09-10T05:41:09Z")

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