GeoIP Processor
editGeoIP Processor
editThe geoip
processor adds information about the geographical location of IP addresses, based on data from the Maxmind databases.
This processor adds this information by default under the geoip
field. The geoip
processor can resolve both IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses.
The ingest-geoip
module ships by default with the GeoLite2 City, GeoLite2 Country and GeoLite2 ASN geoip2 databases from Maxmind made available
under the CCA-ShareAlike 4.0 license. For more details see, http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
The geoip
processor can run with other GeoIP2 databases from Maxmind. The files must be copied into the ingest-geoip
config directory,
and the database_file
option should be used to specify the filename of the custom database. Custom database files must be stored
uncompressed. The ingest-geoip
config directory is located at $ES_CONFIG/ingest-geoip
.
Using the geoip
Processor in a Pipeline
editTable 42. geoip
options
Name | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
|
yes |
- |
The field to get the ip address from for the geographical lookup. |
|
no |
geoip |
The field that will hold the geographical information looked up from the Maxmind database. |
|
no |
GeoLite2-City.mmdb |
The database filename in the geoip config directory. The ingest-geoip module ships with the GeoLite2-City.mmdb, GeoLite2-Country.mmdb and GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb files. |
|
no |
[ |
Controls what properties are added to the |
|
no |
|
If |
*Depends on what is available in database_file
:
-
If the GeoLite2 City database is used, then the following fields may be added under the
target_field
:ip
,country_iso_code
,country_name
,continent_name
,region_iso_code
,region_name
,city_name
,timezone
,latitude
,longitude
andlocation
. The fields actually added depend on what has been found and which properties were configured inproperties
. -
If the GeoLite2 Country database is used, then the following fields may be added under the
target_field
:ip
,country_iso_code
,country_name
andcontinent_name
. The fields actually added depend on what has been found and which properties were configured inproperties
. -
If the GeoLite2 ASN database is used, then the following fields may be added under the
target_field
:ip
,asn
, andorganization_name
. The fields actually added depend on what has been found and which properties were configured inproperties
.
Here is an example that uses the default city database and adds the geographical information to the geoip
field based on the ip
field:
PUT _ingest/pipeline/geoip { "description" : "Add geoip info", "processors" : [ { "geoip" : { "field" : "ip" } } ] } PUT my_index/_doc/my_id?pipeline=geoip { "ip": "8.8.8.8" } GET my_index/_doc/my_id
Which returns:
{ "found": true, "_index": "my_index", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "my_id", "_version": 1, "_seq_no": 55, "_primary_term": 1, "_source": { "ip": "8.8.8.8", "geoip": { "continent_name": "North America", "country_iso_code": "US", "location": { "lat": 37.751, "lon": -97.822 } } } }
Here is an example that uses the default country database and adds the
geographical information to the geo
field based on the ip
field`. Note that
this database is included in the module. So this:
PUT _ingest/pipeline/geoip { "description" : "Add geoip info", "processors" : [ { "geoip" : { "field" : "ip", "target_field" : "geo", "database_file" : "GeoLite2-Country.mmdb" } } ] } PUT my_index/_doc/my_id?pipeline=geoip { "ip": "8.8.8.8" } GET my_index/_doc/my_id
returns this:
{ "found": true, "_index": "my_index", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "my_id", "_version": 1, "_seq_no": 65, "_primary_term": 1, "_source": { "ip": "8.8.8.8", "geo": { "continent_name": "North America", "country_iso_code": "US", } } }
Not all IP addresses find geo information from the database, When this
occurs, no target_field
is inserted into the document.
Here is an example of what documents will be indexed as when information for "80.231.5.0" cannot be found:
PUT _ingest/pipeline/geoip { "description" : "Add geoip info", "processors" : [ { "geoip" : { "field" : "ip" } } ] } PUT my_index/_doc/my_id?pipeline=geoip { "ip": "80.231.5.0" } GET my_index/_doc/my_id
Which returns:
{ "_index" : "my_index", "_type" : "_doc", "_id" : "my_id", "_version" : 1, "_seq_no" : 71, "_primary_term": 1, "found" : true, "_source" : { "ip" : "80.231.5.0" } }
Recognizing Location as a Geopoint
editAlthough this processor enriches your document with a location
field containing
the estimated latitude and longitude of the IP address, this field will not be
indexed as a geo_point
type in Elasticsearch without explicitly defining it
as such in the mapping.
You can use the following mapping for the example index above:
PUT my_ip_locations { "mappings": { "properties": { "geoip": { "properties": { "location": { "type": "geo_point" } } } } } }
Node Settings
editThe geoip
processor supports the following setting:
-
ingest.geoip.cache_size
-
The maximum number of results that should be cached. Defaults to
1000
.
Note that these settings are node settings and apply to all geoip
processors, i.e. there is one cache for all defined geoip
processors.