官方Prometheus镜像,使用的不是咱们上海的时区,我们可以用上海时区文件创建一个configmap,然后挂载到启动的Prometheus容器里:
kubectl create configmap prometheus-time-zone --from-file=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai
然后挂载:
volumeMounts:
- name: prometheus-time-zone
mountPath: /etc/localtime
subPath: Shanghai
然后可以把容器里的时区改成上海时区,东八区

用date 验证时间是本地时间了
但这个只是改了Prometheus容器得本地时区文件而已。centos系统 就是/etc/localtime Ubuntu是/etc/timezone
但是Prometheus 是在代码里,统一做得UTC转换
类似这样:
所以机器上(容器里)的时区并不起作用。
至于为什么这么做,官方给了说明:
Can I change the timezone? Why is everything in UTC?
To avoid any kind of timezone confusion, especially when the so-called daylight saving time is involved, we decided to exclusively use Unix time internally and UTC for display purposes in all components of Prometheus. A carefully done timezone selection could be introduced into the UI. Contributions are welcome. See issue #500 for the current state of this effort.
github 讨论:
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/500
所以想做时间本地化,就直接在外部程序做好了。
其实官方也是这样做的:
这里的use local time 就是输出后,前端js做了一次转换。