Goaccess: Support for GeoIP2

Created on 27 Aug 2015 · 13Comments · Source: allinurl/goaccess

Hi,

Now Maxmind has created a new database called GEOIP2 with more powerful and performance. The legacy one will be abandoned in future.

So it will be great to let goaccess support the legacy database but the new one too.

Regards,
Yudao

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yudao

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Support for GeoIP2 has been added.

It now requires to configure goaccess as (GeoIP2):

./configure --enable-geoip=mmdb

or for legacy GeoIP

./configure --enable-geoip=legacy

Databases can be found here. And use --geoip-database /path/GeoLite2-City.mmdb to specify the database.

Please feel free to test it by building from upstream. It will be pushed out in the upcoming version.

allinurl on 30 Jan 2017

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Thanks for pointing this out. Do you know if they have a C API/library to access GEOIP2?

allinurl on 27 Aug 2015

yes : https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb

Sorry to not pointing it on my first post

yudao on 27 Aug 2015

Awesome, I'll look into this. Thanks again!

allinurl on 27 Aug 2015

No problem.
It will be great to not have a geoip compilation flag and read automatically form the library with the database path in the config file.
I'm using Mac OSX and homebrew and it's a pain to have recompile goaccess.
But I guess there are maybe other restrictions for that.

yudao on 28 Aug 2015

Will patch soon.

cicku on 2 Sep 2015

Would it be possible to add support for the maxmind GEOIP2 City database perhaps also, along with adding the outputted coordinates? Rather than just country information?

NinnOgTonic on 22 Nov 2015

@overnine are the coordinates available on the free version of GeoIP2? Do you know which fields are available on the free version?

allinurl on 22 Nov 2015

@allinurl I believe that they are indeed, it just contains much less records in the free version: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo

Note that:

The GeoIP2 City database is a more accurate version of our free GeoLite2 City database.

NinnOgTonic on 22 Nov 2015

Thanks for the reminder, I'll definitely check on this. However, not sure if I can squeeze this in the upcoming release that I'm working right now (v1.0), otherwise, it will probably be out after v1.0 for sure.

allinurl on 23 Nov 2015

Any update on this @allinurl ? Using a .mmdb from GeoLite2 is giving errors.

ix5 on 3 Jan 2017

Support for GeoIP2 has been added.

It now requires to configure goaccess as (GeoIP2):

./configure --enable-geoip=mmdb

or for legacy GeoIP

./configure --enable-geoip=legacy

Databases can be found here. And use --geoip-database /path/GeoLite2-City.mmdb to specify the database.

Please feel free to test it by building from upstream. It will be pushed out in the upcoming version.

allinurl on 30 Jan 2017

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Works great, thank you for implementing this, @allinurl.

For others: You will need libmaxminddb-dev on debian-based systems to compile.

ix5 on 31 Jan 2017

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hey guys,
I'm currently fighting this for the last couple of hours - I've been trying to run dockerized goaccess with geoip enabled, using GeoIP2 (mmdb, not legacy). I've been getting the same error in my docker container logs, regardless of whether I do this over docker-compose or docker run: Unable to open GeoIP2 database: /goaccess/geoip/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.
Worth mentioning is that the db file itself is located in a geoip volume which is attached to the container from the host, and I made sure that it is actually available inside the container, in the path specified in my goaccess conf file (with 755 permissions)
The image is the latest, and I also inspected the Dockerfile to make sure it was running configure with --enable-geoip=mmdb, and it is. Not sure if this is relevant but the server running this is an Ubuntu 4.15.0-99-generic.

Thanks for the help!
Dan