Splunk Enterprise

Why is Splunk assigning the wrong date for my firewall logs when it used to record dates accurately before?

yschiff
New Member

For some reason, Splunk is misreading the data from my firewall logs. The events clearly show the correct date and time, but Splunk is for some reason interpreting the date incorrectly. For example, in my screenshot is an event which shows occurring on 9/29/2015. However, Splunk is recording it as 9/28/2015. I'm not entirely sure when this started happening. Splunk used to record the dates accurately.

Thanks.

alt text

0 Karma

maraman_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

it looks like a timezone issue
If your firewall is logging in local time and the timezone is not in the log, then splunk will thinks it is UTC. you can tell splunk which timezone it is by setting TZ= in props.conf (can do it by source for example)

0 Karma

jterry
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

any chance of this being a time-zone issue? Perhaps check to see whether the splunk account profile you're using has a different timezone setting than the firewall system.

0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Stay Connected: Your Guide to May Tech Talks, Office Hours, and Webinars!

Take a look below to explore our upcoming Community Office Hours, Tech Talks, and Webinars this month. This ...

They're back! Join the SplunkTrust and MVP at .conf24

With our highly anticipated annual conference, .conf, comes the fez-wearers you can trust! The SplunkTrust, as ...

Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) | New Releases

Last month, the Splunk Threat Research Team had two releases of new security content via the Enterprise ...