diff --git a/kibana/Dockerfile b/kibana/Dockerfile
index 55b4377..98e38dd 100644
--- a/kibana/Dockerfile
+++ b/kibana/Dockerfile
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ WORKDIR /usr/share/kibana
 RUN ln -s /usr/share/kibana /opt/kibana
 
 ENV ELASTIC_CONTAINER true
+ENV I18N_LOCALE "en"
 ENV PATH=/usr/share/kibana/bin:$PATH
 
 # Set some Kibana configuration defaults.
diff --git a/kibana/bin/kibana-docker b/kibana/bin/kibana-docker
index f4ae377..943326d 100755
--- a/kibana/bin/kibana-docker
+++ b/kibana/bin/kibana-docker
@@ -456,6 +456,10 @@ done
 # Files created at run-time should be group-writable, for Openshift's sake.
 umask 0002
 
+if [[ -n "$I18N_LOCALE" ]]; then
+  echo "i18n.locale: $I18N_LOCALE" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml
+fi
+
 # The virtual file /proc/self/cgroup should list the current cgroup
 # membership. For each hierarchy, you can follow the cgroup path from
 # this file to the cgroup filesystem (usually /sys/fs/cgroup/) and