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GeoIP stats API

Gets statistics about the geoip processor, including download statistics for GeoIP2 databases used with it.

resp = client.ingest.geo_ip_stats()
print(resp)

response = client.ingest.geo_ip_stats
puts response

const response = await client.ingest.geoIpStats();
console.log(response);

GET _ingest/geoip/stats

Request

GET _ingest/geoip/stats

Prerequisites

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the monitor or manage cluster privilege to use this API.
If ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled is disabled and no custom databases are configured, this API returns zero values and an empty nodes object.

Response body

stats

(object) Download statistics for all GeoIP2 databases.

Properties of stats

successful_downloads: (integer) Total number of successful database downloads.
failed_downloads: (integer) Total number of failed database downloads.
total_download_time: (integer) Total milliseconds spent downloading databases.
database_count: (integer) Current number of databases available for use.
skipped_updates: (integer) Total number of database updates skipped.

nodes

(object) Statistics for each node.

Properties of nodes

<node_id>

(object) Downloaded databases for the node. The field key is the node ID.

Properties of <node_id>

databases

(array of objects) Downloaded databases for the node.

Properties of databases objects

name: (string) Name of the database.

cache_stats

(object) GeoIP cache stats for the node.

Properties of cache_stats

count: (Long) Number of cached entries.
hits: (Long) The number of enrich lookups served from cache.
misses: (Long) The number of times geoIP lookups couldn’t be served from cache.
evictions: (Long) The number cache entries evicted from the cache.
hits_time_in_millis: (Long) The amount of time in milliseconds spent fetching data from the cache on successful cache hits only.
misses_time_in_millis: (Long) The amount of time in milliseconds spent fetching data from the cache and the backing GeoIP2 database and updating the cache, on cache misses only.

files_in_temp

(array of strings) Downloaded database files, including related license files. Elasticsearch stores these files in the node’s temporary directory: $ES_TMPDIR/geoip-databases/<node_id>.

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