README.md in fluent-plugin-geoip-0.4.0 vs README.md in fluent-plugin-geoip-0.5.0.beta

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@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ before use, install dependent library as: ```bash # for RHEL/CentOS +$ sudo yum group install "Development Tools" $ sudo yum install geoip-devel --enablerepo=epel # for Ubuntu/Debian +$ sudo apt-get install build-essential $ sudo apt-get install libgeoip-dev ``` ## Installation @@ -65,10 +67,13 @@ # Settings for tag remove_tag_prefix access. tag geoip.${tag} + # To avoid get stacktrace error with `[null, null]` array for elasticsearch. + skip_adding_null_record true + # Set log_level for fluentd-v0.10.43 or earlier (default: warn) log_level info # Set buffering time (default: 0s) flush_interval 1s @@ -106,16 +111,19 @@ # lat lon as string # ex. "37.4192008972168,-122.05740356445312" location_string ${latitude["host"]},${longitude["host"]} - # lat lon as array (it is useful for Kibana's bettermap.) + # GeoJSON (lat lon as array) is useful for Kibana's bettermap. # ex. [-122.05740356445312, 37.4192008972168] location_array [${longitude["host"]},${latitude["host"]}] </record> remove_tag_prefix access. tag geoip.${tag} + + # To avoid get stacktrace error with `[null, null]` array for elasticsearch. + skip_adding_null_record true </match> ``` On the case of using td-agent2 (v1-config), it have to quote `{ ... }` or `[ ... ]` block with quotation like below. @@ -128,10 +136,11 @@ location_string ${latitude["host"]},${longitude["host"]} location_array '[${longitude["host"]},${latitude["host"]}]' </record> remove_tag_prefix access. tag geoip.${tag} + skip_adding_null_record true </match> ``` ## Tutorial @@ -180,28 +189,38 @@ For more details of geoip data format is described at the page below in section `GeoIP City Edition CSV Database Fields`.<br /> http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/csv/ ## Placeholders -Provides these placeholders for adding field of geolocate results. +Provides these placeholders for adding field of geolocate results.<br /> +For more example of geolocating, you can try these websites like [Geo IP Address View](http://www.geoipview.com/) or [View my IP information](http://www.geoiptool.com/en/). -* ${city[lookup_field]} -* ${latitude[lookup_field]} -* ${longitude[lookup_field]} -* ${country_code3[lookup_field]} -* ${country_code[lookup_field]} -* ${country_name[lookup_field]} -* ${dma_code[lookup_field]} -* ${area_code[lookup_field]} -* ${region[lookup_field]} +| placeholder attributes | output example | type | note | +|--------------------------------|-------------------|--------------|------| +| ${city[lookup_field]} | "Ithaca" | varchar(255) | - | +| ${latitude[lookup_field]} | 42.4277992248535 | decimal | - | +| ${longitude[lookup_field]} | -76.4981994628906 | decimal | - | +| ${country_code3[lookup_field]} | "USA" | varchar(3) | - | +| ${country_code[lookup_field]} | "US" | varchar(2) | A two-character ISO 3166-1 country code | +| ${country_name[lookup_field]} | "United States" | varchar(50) | - | +| ${dma_code[lookup_field]} | 555 | unsigned int | **only for US** | +| ${area_code[lookup_field]} | 607 | char(3) | **only for US** | +| ${region[lookup_field]} | "NY" | char(2) | A two character ISO-3166-2 or FIPS 10-4 code | +Further more specification available at http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/csv/#GeoIP_City_Edition_CSV_Database_Fields + ## Parameters * `include_tag_key` (default: false) * `tag_key` Add original tag name into filtered record using SetTagKeyMixin.<br /> Further details are written at http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/in_exec + +* `skip_adding_null_record` (default: false) + +Skip adding geoip fields when this valaues to `true`. +On the case of getting nothing of GeoIP info (such as local IP), it will output the original record without changing anything. * `remove_tag_prefix` * `remove_tag_suffix` * `add_tag_prefix` * `add_tag_suffix`