Azure-docs: Timezone for dates in the Portal

[AlissonRS]

It's not clear what timezone is used to display dates in Application Insights (in Azure Portal). It seems it uses the same timezone as my computer. I wanted to see any logs/events/telemetry in UTC date time.

How can we switch to UTC in Azure Portal?

Thanks!

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• ID: 88844d44-a476-9c82-bb1f-77fe958d5639
• Version Independent ID: 1a7e36ee-d4fa-653d-8fca-126b352a8087
• Content: Azure Application Insights Transaction Diagnostics - Azure Monitor
• Content Source: articles/azure-monitor/app/transaction-diagnostics.md
• Service: azure-monitor
• Sub-service: application-insights
• GitHub Login: @mrbullwinkle
• Microsoft Alias: mbullwin

[RohitMungi-MSFT]

@AlissonRS Thanks for the question. It would be great if you could provide us any Azure documentation link that you might be following while setting up your app insights as this would help us find the right person/team to help you with the query.

[AlissonRS]

@RohitMungi-MSFT thanks for the reply, I'm sorry I forgot to add it.

Here it is:
Transaction Diagnostics

Ideally it should reflect in the Performance/Failures sections of App Insights, so all data would be displayed in UTC (as I work with people spread in different timezones and also our internal data are in UTC, it's easier to correlate and discuss if everything was UTC.

Thanks!

[AlissonRS]

Just want to provide more details.

As you can see below, the dates are "Local Time", and local time is fetched from my OS. How can I change my "local time" in my Azure account so all these screens (e.g Performance, Failures, Events, Logs) stop relying on my OS?

[BhargaviAnnadevara-MSFT]

@AlissonRS AFAIK, this is not doable directly from the App Insights portal.

However, you can choose to drill down on your query in the Log Analytics blade from the "View in Logs" option as follows, to see data in UTC time:

Please use this workaround for the time being while I check further with our internal Teams.

[zakimaksyutov]

Yes, all Application Insights experiences (a.k.a. blades) should show a time zone (local time). But they indeed don't allow to change it. This ask is in our backlog. Thank you for raising it here - it helps us to prioritize it!

[BhargaviAnnadevara-MSFT]

@zakimaksyutov Thanks for the update!

@AlissonRS Hope the above responses help.

At this point, it appears that there are no edits or updates needed to the document in question. Hence closing this issue for now. If there are any further questions regarding the documentation, please tag me in your reply and we will be happy to continue the conversation.