I am integrating performance data from a monitoring source (e.g. BPPM or TSIM) using REST API. I simply pass the epoch value that I collect every 5 minutes from the source tool into the JSON body of the Measures API. I notice that that the date is based on different timezone (maybe GMT). How should I handle the epoch so that it is based on my timezone, such as EST or CST?

Here is a SAMPLE JSON Body for a measures:

Formatted JSON Data

{ 

   "source":"172.21.97.150",

   "metric":"TSIM..VMware_CPU_Container..CPU_Total_Util",

   "measure":0.0395,

   "timestamp":1461327641,

   "metadata":{ 

      "app_id":"CBNA",

      "source_type":"ESXi"

   }

}

The actual time reflected in the source tool is:  4/22/2016 12:28:46 PM CST

1461327641 = 4/22/2016 15:28:46 GMT

This is what I see in the TSI UI .. appears to be a GAP in the graph with current time (click to enlarge image):

Please provide best practices on how I should handle epoch? Should I transform it before sending? What would you suggest?

Thank you.

KP