topic Re: Firewall syslog timezone in General Topics

Firewall syslog timezone

John_Rodgers — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:29:16 GMT

From my understanding, the timestamp within syslog messages from the Palo Alto firewall are based on the time zone configured on the firewall. However, the syslog message does not include what that time zone is, which can cause problems for SIEMs and other log ingesting devices. Is my understanding of this correct? And if so, is there a way have the firewall include the timezone within the syslog message?

Re: Firewall syslog timezone

thampton — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:33:31 GMT

The syslog message times are based on times from the management or data plane for the firewall. The link below explains it.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/8-1/pan-os-admin/monitoring/use-syslog-for-monitoring/syslog-field-descriptions/system-log-fields.html

Re: Firewall syslog timezone

John_Rodgers — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:06:03 GMT

Understood. Is there a way to get the syslog message to include what timezone the timestamp is in?

Re: Firewall syslog timezone

TheJourney — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:08:45 GMT

I guess its not possible since no one replied?

Seems dumb to me to have to set your firewalls to UTC to get logs into SIEMs. Most other platforms dont have this issue.