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forwarder source logs displaying in UTC Time - Need EST
Hi,
I have a forwarder that goes by EST. My Splunk server also goes by EST. Today I had to add a source (from a completely different server with UTC time) to my EST Splunk forwarder.
How can I make _time for the logs in this source be in EST? They can still display UTC, but I need to see them in EST for Splunk timing.
I have already tried editing the props.conf to say:
[mdm]
TZ = UTC
Where mdm is the sourcetype for this source
Thanks,
Brian
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The indexers were probably rebooted which is required for this change to take effect.
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Somehow this issue has cleared itself up. 🙂
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You should try to configure splunk to recognize the correct TZ for that source, that way splunk can do all of the search time corrections for you.
As for subtracting 4 hours, not a problem so long as splunk knows it is working with a time.
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Timestamp is showing up like this in the raw log...
2014-03-11 18:04:11
basically all I want to do is subtract 4 hours from it. Idk how that would go if the UTC time was between midnight and 3:59AM, but I could use temporarily a method to show this time as EST (4 hours prior to what it says now)
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Do the event timestamps include a timezone, or is the timestamp an epoch time?
How did you add the new server to the forwarder, and why not add it directly to the indexer?
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