ML rules How to handle timezone (UTC GMT-3) and alert duration in notifications?

Hello community,

We are currently using kibana machine learning anomaly detection alerts (anomaly detection jobs) with email actions triggered “for each alert > on status change”.

We have two related requirements regarding the alert notifications, and we would like to understand what is the recommended or supported approach.

  1. Timezone in alert notifications

At the moment, alert notifications always include timestamps in UTC

Our users are in GMT-3

Kibana UI and dashboards correctly display dates using the browser timezone or America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires

However, email notifications sent by ML alerts always show UTC

Is there any supported way to format alert timestamps in a specific timezone (e.g. GMT-3) directly in the alert action?

Is this a known limitation by design for ML alerts?

Are there any plans or recommendations to handle timezone formatting?

  1. Alert opening time, closing time and duration

We would like to include the following information in the “recovered / resolved” notification:

Alert opening timestamp

Alert closing timestamp

Total duration of the alert

Is there a supported way to access those?

Thank you very much in advance.