LogScale includes GeoLite2 databases from MaxMind to enable ASN and IP location lookups via the asn() and ipLocation() function, respectively.

Due to the way these databases are licensed, they expire after 30 days and thus must be updated regularly. If the IP location database or IP ASN database expires, then any calls to ipLocation() or asn() will cause a warning in the query and not add any location or ASN data to the event.

By default, the database is automatically updated via an update service hosted by LogScale if the cluster is running with a valid LogScale license.

If instead you wish to manage this yourself, you can supply your own MaxMind databases by setting AUTO_UPDATE_MAXMIND to false and placing the databases in the LogScale data directory. The databases should be named the following:

LogScale will check these files periodically and reload them if they are updated.

It is also possible for LogScale to automatically download directly from MaxMind if you have a MaxMind license. To do so, the following must be set:

Below is an example of how these variables might be set:

AUTO_UPDATE_MAXMIND=true
MAXMIND_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id
MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY=your-license-key
MAXMIND_IP_LOCATION_EDITION_ID=GeoLite2-City
MAXMIND_BASE_URL=http://my-maxmind-proxy.local