diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/common/formatting.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/common/formatting.js
index e94ed44efff05..a3b3ce07c8c76 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/common/formatting.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/common/formatting.js
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ export const LARGE_ABBREVIATED = '0,0.[0]a';
  * @param date Either a numeric Unix timestamp or a {@code Date} object
  * @returns The date formatted using 'LL LTS'
  */
-export function formatDateTimeLocal(date) {
-  return moment.tz(date, moment.tz.guess()).format('LL LTS');
+export function formatDateTimeLocal(date, useUTC = false) {
+  return useUTC
+    ? moment.utc(date).format('LL LTS')
+    : moment.tz(date, moment.tz.guess()).format('LL LTS');
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/chart_target.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/chart_target.js
index 9f425a81d8667..9d5ebd274ea9e 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/chart_target.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/chart_target.js
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ export class ChartTarget extends React.Component {
       .value();
   }
 
-  getOptions() {
-    const opts = getChartOptions({
+  async getOptions() {
+    const opts = await getChartOptions({
       yaxis: { tickFormatter: this.props.tickFormatter },
       xaxis: this.props.timeRange
     });
@@ -88,12 +88,12 @@ export class ChartTarget extends React.Component {
     };
   }
 
-  renderChart() {
+  async renderChart() {
     const { target } = this.refs;
     const { series } = this.props;
     const data = this.filterData(series, this.props.seriesToShow);
 
-    this.plot = $.plot(target, data, this.getOptions());
+    this.plot = $.plot(target, data, await this.getOptions());
 
     this._handleResize = () => {
       if (!this.plot) { return; }
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/get_chart_options.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/get_chart_options.js
index cd81aff14701a..7f54b7ec0d2a7 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/get_chart_options.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/chart/get_chart_options.js
@@ -4,17 +4,20 @@
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License.
  */
 
+import chrome from 'ui/chrome';
 import { merge } from 'lodash';
 import { CHART_LINE_COLOR, CHART_TEXT_COLOR } from '../../../common/constants';
 
-export function getChartOptions(axisOptions) {
+export async function getChartOptions(axisOptions) {
+  const $injector = await chrome.dangerouslyGetActiveInjector();
+  const timezone = $injector.get('config').get('dateFormat:tz');
   const opts = {
     legend: {
       show: false
     },
     xaxis: {
       color: CHART_LINE_COLOR,
-      timezone: 'browser',
+      timezone: timezone === 'Browser' ? 'browser' : 'utc',
       mode: 'time', // requires `time` flot plugin
       font: {
         color: CHART_TEXT_COLOR
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/logs/logs.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/logs/logs.js
index 8a5e067a8a93e..c59a3d595b14f 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/logs/logs.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/logs/logs.js
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ const columns = [
     field: 'timestamp',
     name: columnTimestampTitle,
     width: '12%',
-    render: timestamp => formatDateTimeLocal(timestamp),
+    render: timestamp => formatDateTimeLocal(timestamp, true),
   },
   {
     field: 'level',
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const clusterColumns = [
     field: 'timestamp',
     name: columnTimestampTitle,
     width: '12%',
-    render: timestamp => formatDateTimeLocal(timestamp),
+    render: timestamp => formatDateTimeLocal(timestamp, true),
   },
   {
     field: 'level',
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/__test__/get_metrics.test.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/__test__/get_metrics.test.js
index f7caf9de0d1fe..5af714f7b3ba2 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/__test__/get_metrics.test.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/__test__/get_metrics.test.js
@@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ function getMockReq(metricsBuckets = []) {
     },
     params: {
       clusterUuid: '1234xyz'
-    }
+    },
+    getUiSettingsService: () => ({
+      get: () => 'Browser'
+    })
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_metrics.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_metrics.js
index 57c936f960212..c5d2ee2032b01 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_metrics.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_metrics.js
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ import Promise from 'bluebird';
 import { checkParam } from '../error_missing_required';
 import { getSeries } from './get_series';
 import { calculateTimeseriesInterval } from '../calculate_timeseries_interval';
+import { getTimezone } from '../get_timezone';
 
-export function getMetrics(req, indexPattern, metricSet = [], filters = []) {
+export async function getMetrics(req, indexPattern, metricSet = [], filters = []) {
   checkParam(indexPattern, 'indexPattern in details/getMetrics');
   checkParam(metricSet, 'metricSet in details/getMetrics');
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ export function getMetrics(req, indexPattern, metricSet = [], filters = []) {
   const max = moment.utc(req.payload.timeRange.max).valueOf();
   const minIntervalSeconds = config.get('xpack.monitoring.min_interval_seconds');
   const bucketSize = calculateTimeseriesInterval(min, max, minIntervalSeconds);
+  const timezone = await getTimezone(req);
 
   return Promise.map(metricSet, metric => {
     // metric names match the literal metric name, but they can be supplied in groups or individually
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ export function getMetrics(req, indexPattern, metricSet = [], filters = []) {
     }
 
     return Promise.map(metricNames, metricName => {
-      return getSeries(req, indexPattern, metricName, filters, { min, max, bucketSize });
+      return getSeries(req, indexPattern, metricName, filters, { min, max, bucketSize, timezone });
     });
   })
     .then(rows => {
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_series.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_series.js
index 306e93273c157..e66878f522ecb 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_series.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/details/get_series.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   NORMALIZED_DERIVATIVE_UNIT,
   CALCULATE_DURATION_UNTIL
 } from '../../../common/constants';
+import { formatUTCTimestampForTimezone } from '../format_timezone';
 
 /**
  * Derivative metrics for the first two agg buckets are unusable. For the first bucket, there
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ const formatBucketSize = bucketSizeInSeconds => {
   return formatTimestampToDuration(timestamp, CALCULATE_DURATION_UNTIL, now);
 };
 
-function handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSizeInSeconds, response) {
+function handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSizeInSeconds, timezone, response) {
   const { derivative, calculation: customCalculation } = metric;
   const buckets = get(response, 'aggregations.check.buckets', []);
   const firstUsableBucketIndex = findFirstUsableBucketIndex(buckets, min);
@@ -193,14 +194,17 @@ function handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSizeInSeconds, response) {
     data = buckets
       .slice(firstUsableBucketIndex, lastUsableBucketIndex + 1) // take only the buckets we know are usable
       .map(bucket => ([
-        bucket.key,
+        formatUTCTimestampForTimezone(bucket.key, timezone),
         calculation(bucket, key, metric, bucketSizeInSeconds)
       ])); // map buckets to X/Y coords for Flot charting
   }
 
   return {
     bucket_size: formatBucketSize(bucketSizeInSeconds),
-    timeRange: { min, max },
+    timeRange: {
+      min: formatUTCTimestampForTimezone(min, timezone),
+      max: formatUTCTimestampForTimezone(max, timezone),
+    },
     metric: metric.serialize(),
     data
   };
@@ -217,7 +221,7 @@ function handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSizeInSeconds, response) {
  * @param {Array} filters Any filters that should be applied to the query.
  * @return {Promise} The object response containing the {@code timeRange}, {@code metric}, and {@code data}.
  */
-export async function getSeries(req, indexPattern, metricName, filters, { min, max, bucketSize }) {
+export async function getSeries(req, indexPattern, metricName, filters, { min, max, bucketSize, timezone }) {
   checkParam(indexPattern, 'indexPattern in details/getSeries');
 
   const metric = metrics[metricName];
@@ -226,5 +230,5 @@ export async function getSeries(req, indexPattern, metricName, filters, { min, m
   }
   const response = await fetchSeries(req, indexPattern, metric, min, max, bucketSize, filters);
 
-  return handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSize, response);
+  return handleSeries(metric, min, max, bucketSize, timezone, response);
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/format_timezone.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/format_timezone.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..334477ac1c359
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/format_timezone.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License;
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License.
+ */
+import moment from 'moment';
+
+
+/**
+ * This function is designed to offset a UTC timestamp based on the provided timezone
+ * For example, EST is UTC-4h so this function will subtract (4 * 60 * 60 * 1000)ms
+ * from the UTC timestamp. This allows us to allow users to view monitoring data
+ * in various timezones without needing to not store UTC dates.
+ *
+ * @param {*} utcTimestamp UTC timestamp
+ * @param {*} timezone The timezone to convert into
+ */
+export const formatUTCTimestampForTimezone = (utcTimestamp, timezone) => {
+  if (timezone === 'Browser') {
+    return utcTimestamp;
+  }
+  const offsetInMinutes = moment.tz(timezone).utcOffset();
+  const offsetTimestamp = utcTimestamp + (offsetInMinutes * 1 * 60 * 1000);
+  return offsetTimestamp;
+};
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/get_timezone.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/get_timezone.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0da15bf6b28e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/get_timezone.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License;
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License.
+ */
+
+export async function getTimezone(req) {
+  return await req.getUiSettingsService().get('dateFormat:tz');
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/logs/get_logs.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/logs/get_logs.js
index 80d7f21fc45db..0d45b8c6a1c4e 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/logs/get_logs.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/logs/get_logs.js
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License.
  */
 
+import moment from 'moment';
 import { get } from 'lodash';
 import { checkParam } from '../error_missing_required';
 import { createTimeFilter } from '../create_query';
 import { detectReason } from './detect_reason';
+import { formatUTCTimestampForTimezone } from '../format_timezone';
+import { getTimezone } from '../get_timezone';
 
 async function handleResponse(response, req, filebeatIndexPattern, opts) {
   const result = {
@@ -15,15 +18,17 @@ async function handleResponse(response, req, filebeatIndexPattern, opts) {
     logs: []
   };
 
+  const timezone = await getTimezone(req);
   const hits = get(response, 'hits.hits', []);
   if (hits.length) {
     result.enabled = true;
     result.logs = hits.map(hit => {
       const source = hit._source;
       const type = get(source, 'event.dataset').split('.')[1];
+      const utcTimestamp = moment(get(source, '@timestamp')).valueOf();
 
       return {
-        timestamp: get(source, '@timestamp'),
+        timestamp: formatUTCTimestampForTimezone(utcTimestamp, timezone),
         component: get(source, 'elasticsearch.component'),
         node: get(source, 'elasticsearch.node.name'),
         index: get(source, 'elasticsearch.index.name'),
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/index_detail.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/index_detail.json
index abba0d12dbef5..2e9fd359962db 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/index_detail.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/index_detail.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "enabled": true,
   "logs": [{
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:07:21.089Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552669641089,
     "component": "o.e.n.Node",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "index": ".monitoring-es",
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/node_detail.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/node_detail.json
index ef197266273ec..c79fd67205751 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/node_detail.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/logs/fixtures/node_detail.json
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 {
   "enabled": true,
   "logs": [{
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:19:07.365Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670347365,
     "component": "o.e.d.x.m.r.a.RestMonitoringBulkAction",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "WARN",
     "type": "deprecation",
     "message": "[POST /_xpack/monitoring/_bulk] is deprecated! Use [POST /_monitoring/bulk] instead."
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:57.366Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670337366,
     "component": "o.e.d.x.m.r.a.RestMonitoringBulkAction",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "WARN",
     "type": "deprecation",
     "message": "[POST /_xpack/monitoring/_bulk] is deprecated! Use [POST /_monitoring/bulk] instead."
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:47.400Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670327400,
     "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataCreateIndexService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "index": ".monitoring-beats-7-2019.03.15",
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@
     "type": "server",
     "message": "creating index, cause [auto(bulk api)], templates [.monitoring-beats], shards [1]/[0], mappings [_doc]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:47.387Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670327387,
     "component": "o.e.d.x.m.r.a.RestMonitoringBulkAction",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "WARN",
     "type": "deprecation",
     "message": "[POST /_xpack/monitoring/_bulk] is deprecated! Use [POST /_monitoring/bulk] instead."
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:42.084Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670322084,
     "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataMappingService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "index": "filebeat-8.0.0-2019.03.15-000001",
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "type": "server",
     "message": "update_mapping [_doc]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:41.811Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670321811,
     "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataMappingService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "index": "filebeat-8.0.0-2019.03.15-000001",
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     "type": "server",
     "message": "update_mapping [_doc]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:41.447Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670321447,
     "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataCreateIndexService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "index": "filebeat-8.0.0-2019.03.15-000001",
@@ -54,21 +54,21 @@
     "type": "server",
     "message": "creating index, cause [api], templates [filebeat-8.0.0], shards [1]/[1], mappings [_doc]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:41.385Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670321385,
     "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "INFO",
     "type": "server",
     "message": "adding template [filebeat-8.0.0] for index patterns [filebeat-8.0.0-*]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:41.185Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670321185,
     "component": "o.e.x.i.a.TransportPutLifecycleAction",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "INFO",
     "type": "server",
     "message": "adding index lifecycle policy [filebeat-8.0.0]"
   }, {
-    "timestamp": "2019-03-15T17:18:36.137Z",
+    "timestamp": 1552670316137,
     "component": "o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService",
     "node": "Elastic-MBP.local",
     "level": "INFO",