geoip
editgeoip
editThe GeoIP filter adds information about the geographical location of IP addresses, based on data from the Maxmind database.
Starting with version 1.3.0 of Logstash, a [geoip][location]
field is created if
the GeoIP lookup returns a latitude and longitude. The field is stored in
GeoJSON format. Additionally,
the default Elasticsearch template provided with the
elasticsearch
output maps
the [geoip][location]
field to an Elasticsearch geo_point.
As this field is a geo_point
and it is still valid GeoJSON, you get
the awesomeness of Elasticsearch’s geospatial query, facet and filter functions
and the flexibility of having GeoJSON for all other applications (like Kibana’s
map visualization).
Logstash releases ship with the GeoLiteCity database made available from Maxmind with a CCA-ShareAlike 3.0 license. For more details on GeoLite, see http://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite.
Synopsis
editThis plugin supports the following configuration options:
Required configuration options:
geoip { source => ... }
Available configuration options:
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a valid filesystem path |
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Details
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add_field
edit- Value type is hash
-
Default value is
{}
If this filter is successful, add any arbitrary fields to this event.
Field names can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field}
.
Example:
filter { geoip { add_field => { "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}" } } } [source,ruby] # You can also add multiple fields at once: filter { geoip { add_field => { "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}" "new_field" => "new_static_value" } } }
If the event has field "somefield" == "hello"
this filter, on success,
would add field foo_hello
if it is present, with the
value above and the %{host}
piece replaced with that value from the
event. The second example would also add a hardcoded field.
add_tag
edit- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
If this filter is successful, add arbitrary tags to the event.
Tags can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field}
syntax.
Example:
filter { geoip { add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } } [source,ruby] # You can also add multiple tags at once: filter { geoip { add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "taggedy_tag"] } }
If the event has field "somefield" == "hello"
this filter, on success,
would add a tag foo_hello
(and the second example would of course add a taggedy_tag
tag).
database
edit- Value type is path
- There is no default value for this setting.
Map of lookup caches, keyed by geoip_type The path to the GeoIP database file which Logstash should use. Country, City, ASN, ISP and organization databases are supported.
If not specified, this will default to the GeoLiteCity database that ships with Logstash. Up-to-date databases can be downloaded from here: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ Please be sure to download a legacy format database.
fields
edit- Value type is array
- There is no default value for this setting.
An array of geoip fields to be included in the event.
Possible fields depend on the database type. By default, all geoip fields are included in the event.
For the built-in GeoLiteCity database, the following are available:
city_name
, continent_code
, country_code2
, country_code3
, country_name
,
dma_code
, ip
, latitude
, longitude
, postal_code
, region_name
and timezone
.
lru_cache_size
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
1000
GeoIP lookup is surprisingly expensive. This filter uses an LRU cache to take advantage of the fact that IPs agents are often found adjacent to one another in log files and rarely have a random distribution. The higher you set this the more likely an item is to be in the cache and the faster this filter will run. However, if you set this too high you can use more memory than desired.
Experiment with different values for this option to find the best performance for your dataset.
This MUST be set to a value > 0. There is really no reason to not want this behavior, the overhead is minimal and the speed gains are large.
It is important to note that this config value is global to the geoip_type. That is to say all instances of the geoip filter of the same geoip_type share the same cache. The last declared cache size will win. The reason for this is that there would be no benefit to having multiple caches for different instances at different points in the pipeline, that would just increase the number of cache misses and waste memory.
periodic_flush
edit- Value type is boolean
-
Default value is
false
Call the filter flush method at regular interval. Optional.
remove_field
edit- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
If this filter is successful, remove arbitrary fields from this event. Fields names can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field} Example:
filter { geoip { remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } } [source,ruby] # You can also remove multiple fields at once: filter { geoip { remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "my_extraneous_field" ] } }
If the event has field "somefield" == "hello"
this filter, on success,
would remove the field with name foo_hello
if it is present. The second
example would remove an additional, non-dynamic field.
remove_tag
edit- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
If this filter is successful, remove arbitrary tags from the event.
Tags can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field}
syntax.
Example:
filter { geoip { remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } } [source,ruby] # You can also remove multiple tags at once: filter { geoip { remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "sad_unwanted_tag"] } }
If the event has field "somefield" == "hello"
this filter, on success,
would remove the tag foo_hello
if it is present. The second example
would remove a sad, unwanted tag as well.
source
edit- This is a required setting.
- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
The field containing the IP address or hostname to map via geoip. If this field is an array, only the first value will be used.
target
edit- Value type is string
-
Default value is
"geoip"
Specify the field into which Logstash should store the geoip data.
This can be useful, for example, if you have src\_ip
and dst\_ip
fields and
would like the GeoIP information of both IPs.
If you save the data to a target field other than geoip
and want to use the
geo\_point
related functions in Elasticsearch, you need to alter the template
provided with the Elasticsearch output and configure the output to use the
new template.
Even if you don’t use the geo\_point
mapping, the [target][location]
field
is still valid GeoJSON.