Github user kylerichardson commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/276#discussion_r82489921
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metron-platform/metron-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/parsers/utils/SyslogUtils.java
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+package org.apache.metron.parsers.utils;
+
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+
+public class SyslogUtils {
+
+ public static long convertToEpochMillis(String logTimestamp, String
logTimeFormat) {
+ ZonedDateTime timestamp = ZonedDateTime.parse(logTimestamp,
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(logTimeFormat).withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC));
+ return timestamp.toEpochSecond() * 1000;
+ }
+
+ public static long parseTimestampToEpochMillis(String logTimestamp) {
+ if (logTimestamp.length() < 20) {
+ ZonedDateTime now = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC);
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Of course you're right, the timestamp will not always be in UTC. ASA logs
consumed via syslog (either raw off the wire or through another syslog server)
will generally follow the syslog standard.
There are a number of possibilities to explore here. If we assume that we
will be collecting the raw syslog from the ASAs off the wire, the timestamp
will not include the timezone/offset. This code assumes the device is logging
in UTC, which, to your point, is probably a bad assumption. I made this
assumption because it seems to me we would want all of the timestamps indexed
to be in the same timezone and the easiest way to accomplish that would be to
normalize all of the telemetry data to UTC.
Question for the team. How are other parsers handling timezone? Are they
passing through the device timezone?
The way I'm thinking of solving this is by adding a configuration option to
the parser to specify the device timezone. (This would require that all ASAs
put through the parser we configured to the same timezone though.) I would then
convert the timestamp to UTC prior to writing it into the metron normalized
JSON message.
Any feedback or other ideas on solving this one?
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