[config] logging.useUTC -> logging.timezone (#21561) (#22697)

* [config] logging.useUTC -> logging.timezone

* docs

* [env] exit if starting as root

* fix import path

* add link and timezone example

* Revert "[env] exit if starting as root"

This reverts commit f6e9090.

docs/setup/settings.asciidoc

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ error messages.
 
 [[logging-verbose]]`logging.verbose:`:: *Default: false* Set the value of this setting to `true` to log all events, including system usage information and all requests. Supported on Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
 
-`logging.useUTC`:: *Default: true* Set the value of this setting to `false` to log events using the timezone of the server, rather than UTC.
+`logging.timezone`:: *Default: UTC* Set to the canonical timezone id (e.g. `US/Pacific`) to log events using that timezone.  A list of timezones can be referenced at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones.
 
 `map.includeElasticMapsService:`:: *Default: true* Turns on or off whether layers from the Elastic Maps Service should be included in the vector and tile layer option list.
 By turning this off, only the layers that are configured here will be included.

src/server/config/schema.js

@@ -140,10 +140,8 @@ export default () => Joi.object({
         then: Joi.default(!process.stdout.isTTY),
         otherwise: Joi.default(true)
       }),
-
-    useUTC: Joi.boolean().default(true),
-  })
-    .default(),
+    timezone: Joi.string().allow(false).default('UTC')
+  }).default(),
 
   ops: Joi.object({
     interval: Joi.number().default(5000),

src/server/config/transform_deprecations.js

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import _, { partial } from 'lodash';
+import _, { partial, set } from 'lodash';
 import { createTransform, Deprecations } from '../../deprecation';
+import { unset } from '../../utils';
 
 const { rename, unused } = Deprecations;
 
@@ -55,6 +56,15 @@ const rewriteBasePath = (settings, log) => {
   }
 };
 
+const loggingTimezone = (settings, log) => {
+  if (_.has(settings, 'logging.useUTC')) {
+    const timezone = settings.logging.useUTC ? 'UTC' : false;
+    set('logging.timezone', timezone);
+    unset(settings, 'logging.UTC');
+    log(`Config key "logging.useUTC" is deprecated. It has been replaced with "logging.timezone"`);
+  }
+};
+
 const deprecations = [
   //server
   rename('server.ssl.cert', 'server.ssl.certificate'),
@@ -68,6 +78,7 @@ const deprecations = [
   serverSslEnabled,
   savedObjectsIndexCheckTimeout,
   rewriteBasePath,
+  loggingTimezone,
 ];
 
 export const transformDeprecations = createTransform(deprecations);

src/server/logging/configuration.js

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export default function loggingConfiguration(config) {
         config: {
           json: config.get('logging.json'),
           dest: config.get('logging.dest'),
-          useUTC: config.get('logging.useUTC'),
+          timezone: config.get('logging.timezone'),
 
           // I'm adding the default here because if you add another filter
           // using the commandline it will remove authorization. I want users

src/server/logging/log_format.js

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  */
 
 import Stream from 'stream';
-import moment from 'moment';
+import moment from 'moment-timezone';
 import { get, _ } from 'lodash';
 import numeral from '@elastic/numeral';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ export default class TransformObjStream extends Stream.Transform {
   }
 
   extractAndFormatTimestamp(data, format) {
-    const { useUTC } = this.config;
+    const { timezone } = this.config;
     const date = moment(data['@timestamp']);
-    if (useUTC) {
-      date.utc();
+    if (timezone) {
+      date.tz(timezone);
     }
     return date.format(format);
   }

src/server/logging/log_format_json.test.js

@@ -196,10 +196,10 @@ describe('KbnLoggerJsonFormat', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('useUTC', () => {
-    it('logs in UTC when useUTC is true', async () => {
+  describe('timezone', () => {
+    it('logs in UTC', async () => {
       const format = new KbnLoggerJsonFormat({
-        useUTC: true
+        timezone: 'UTC'
       });
 
       const result = await createPromiseFromStreams([
@@ -211,10 +211,8 @@ describe('KbnLoggerJsonFormat', () => {
       expect(timestamp).toBe(moment.utc(time).format());
     });
 
-    it('logs in local timezone when useUTC is false', async () => {
-      const format = new KbnLoggerJsonFormat({
-        useUTC: false
-      });
+    it('logs in local timezone timezone is undefined', async () => {
+      const format = new KbnLoggerJsonFormat({});
 
       const result = await createPromiseFromStreams([
         createListStream([makeEvent('log')]),

src/server/logging/log_format_string.test.js

@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ const makeEvent = () => ({
 });
 
 describe('KbnLoggerStringFormat', () => {
-  it('logs in UTC when useUTC is true', async () => {
+  it('logs in UTC', async () => {
     const format = new KbnLoggerStringFormat({
-      useUTC: true
+      timezone: 'UTC'
     });
 
     const result = await createPromiseFromStreams([
@@ -51,10 +51,8 @@ describe('KbnLoggerStringFormat', () => {
       .toContain(moment.utc(time).format('HH:mm:ss.SSS'));
   });
 
-  it('logs in local timezone when useUTC is false', async () => {
-    const format = new KbnLoggerStringFormat({
-      useUTC: false
-    });
+  it('logs in local timezone when timezone is undefined', async () => {
+    const format = new KbnLoggerStringFormat({});
 
     const result = await createPromiseFromStreams([
       createListStream([makeEvent()]),