This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a
future release. Elastic will take a best effort approach to fix any issues, but
experimental features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA
features.
Add the local time zone
editAdd the local time zone
editThe add_locale
processor enriches each event with the machine’s time zone
offset from UTC or with the name of the time zone. It supports one configuration
option named format
that controls whether an offset or time zone abbreviation
is added to the event. The default format is offset
. The processor adds the
a event.timezone
value to each event.
The configuration below enables the processor with the default settings.
processors: - add_locale: ~
This configuration enables the processor and configures it to add the time zone abbreviation to events.
processors: - add_locale: format: abbreviation
Please note that add_locale
differentiates between daylight savings
time (DST) and regular time. For example CEST
indicates DST and and CET
is
regular time.