Timezones

[rdg]

Im using Zabbix to monitor servers in 5 different timzones. The time displayed in Zabbix is the local Zabbix time. I would like to have an option to easily select which timezone to use. Please let me know if you have experience of the same problem and if so how you resolved it?

Thanks

Robert

[Alexei]

I'm introducing user profiles in next alpha. Perhaps timezone could be part of the profile.

[Wolfgang]

I guess the question is wether the timezones would refer to the user or the hosts.

[Alexei]

What would be advantage of using the tomezones on host level?

[Wolfgang]

I thought of the creation of the time stamps of the data and the presenation in zabbix.

Example:
server1 in GMT+1 reports cpu load at 1pm local time to zabbix_server in GMT+4
server2 in GMT+2 reports cpu load at 2pm local time to zabbix_server in GMT+4
server3 in GMT+3 reports cpu load at 3pm local time to zabbix_server in GMT+4

My assumption was, that the the timestamps of the collected data would refer to the time of the reporting servers (where the agents are running).

That would have meant:
server1 reports data for 1pm
server2 reports data for 2pm
server3 reports data for 3pm
So this way, the data would not be comparable.

But it it seems that the timestamps for the data is actually created on the collecting zabbix_server. This in turn means:
server1 reports data for 1pm but is presentated in zabbix_server for 4pm
server2 reports data for 2pm but is presentated in zabbix_server for 4pm
server3 reports data for 3pm but is presentated in zabbix_server for 4pm

In this case, the data would be comparable and this is the desired functionallity and this seems to be also the current implementation. :)

However, if there is a something wrong with i.e server2 at 4pm in the zabbix monitoring, one need to know, that this refers to 2pm local time of server2 - not 4pm.

[markpr]

I would like to vote for timezones at the host level too. There are a number of advantages to having this feature at the host level when your servers are in several timezones including:

1) application logs on the host and zabbix monitoring will be time-synchronized making application troubleshooting easiser.
2) can forward an end-user or some external person a zabbix graph without asking them to adjust the timescale for their timezone (e.g. our emails say here's a zabbix graph of your system which crashed at 11:30 (zabbix time) which is 14:30 (your time).

In any case the data should always be stored in UTC and only used for display purposes. - thanks Mark