[core.logging] Uses host timezone as default#90368
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The legacy logging timezone default was changed from UTC to the host timezone in #22696. It appears that the documentation wasn't updated to reflect the change. As it stands right now, logging.timezone is actually optional (internally falling back to the local timezone of the host) and we needed to update the docs to reflect that.
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As it stands right now, logging.timezone is actually optional (internally falling back to the local timezone of the host)
Are we certain that this is the current behavior?
I see that the changes made in #22696 are no longer present in the legacy logging config schema: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/packages/kbn-legacy-logging/src/schema.ts#L61
It seems to me that the current setup docs on master are accurate based on how the system works, but that's a little confusing because this update to the migration doc which was added in #22696 is no longer correct: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/docs/migration/migrate_8_0.asciidoc
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@lukeelmers The global logging.timezone is only applied to the legacy logging system. In the KP, this setting is ignored. This PR doesn't make any changes to the legacy logging behavior, it changes the default timezone used in the KP logging system to match the behavior of the legacy logger.
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Update: I removed Optional and replaced *Default: 'UTC'* with "When not set, log events use the host timezone"
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| "[xxxx-xx-xxTxx:xx:xx.xxxZ][INFO ][test-file] handled by NP", | ||
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Default format changed from ISO8601 (UTC) to ISO8601_TZ (retains timezone offset) in the Kibana Platform.
This legacy logging test had to be updated for the setup, where we have both the legacy logging and KP logging systems configured.
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Overall makes sense, added a few notes and questions.
A few other thoughts:
- Should we still consider adding a core deprecation notice for
logging.timezonein this PR, as that setting shouldn't be needed in 8.0 any more since it can be configured with the pattern layout? - Should we be updating
JsonLayoutas well? Currently it's always using UTC. Not sure if we would want to make this configurable or not
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As it stands right now, logging.timezone is actually optional (internally falling back to the local timezone of the host)
Are we certain that this is the current behavior?
I see that the changes made in #22696 are no longer present in the legacy logging config schema: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/packages/kbn-legacy-logging/src/schema.ts#L61
It seems to me that the current setup docs on master are accurate based on how the system works, but that's a little confusing because this update to the migration doc which was added in #22696 is no longer correct: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/docs/migration/migrate_8_0.asciidoc
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@lukeelmers The global logging.timezone is only applied to the legacy logging system. In the KP, this setting is ignored. This PR doesn't make any changes to the legacy logging behavior, it changes the default timezone used in the KP logging system to match the behavior of the legacy logger.
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@lukeelmers I added one and tried to give enough detail in the deprecation notice. My only concern is not being able to set the timezone on a more global log level. Each context that doesn't have a specified appender will inherit from the root logger, which has a default pattern of The root pattern isn't exposed and can't be modified. I guess one could define a custom appender and add that to the root logger, but we will end up with duplicate logs. |
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@lukeelmers In the For example: With the following logging configuration: We get We could consider adding an optional modifier to the json layout for the timestamp field but at the moment, no conversions are supported. log4j also doesn't support as many modifiers to a If we do feel that supporting field modifiers for |
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Pinging @elastic/kibana-core (Team:Core) |
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In the json layout, @timestamp is formatted as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ by default and is equivalent to the pattern layout for ISO8601_TZ.
Thanks for highlighting this - I had read the code too quickly and missed the Z 😉
If we do feel that supporting field modifiers for json layout is needed and part of the larger logging effort, I think we need a new issue for the enhancement.
++ Yeah once this PR lands, this is the only case I can find related to timezones where we don't have feature parity with legacy platform, so I agree we should add it to the list for posterity, even if we don't address it soon. If I run Kibana like this:
node scripts/kibana serve --logging.dest=./kibana.log --logging.json=true --logging.timezone=EST
Then my json logs will indeed have their timezones changed, otherwise they continue to default to the host TZ. But there isn't currently a way to do this with json layout; it's always just the host TZ.
Tested and seems to be working well! I did another pass on the code too... My only nit would be to also update the migration docs which mention logging.timezone. Since we are deprecating that setting we should probably remove mention of the setting there and instead explain how to do this with pattern layout (or link to our README or whatever).
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Summary
Elasticsearch uses the host timezone as a logging default, whereas logging from the Kibana platform uses UTC as the default.
This PR aligns Kibana's logging settings in the Kibana platform with Elasticsearch, defaulting to the host timezone when the timezone for an appender is not explicitly set.
Addresses #89689
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