[[geoip-stats-api]]
=== GeoIP stats API
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<titleabbrev>GeoIP stats</titleabbrev>
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Gets statistics about the <<geoip-processor,`geoip` processor>>, including
download statistics for GeoIP2 databases used with it.

[source,console]
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GET _ingest/geoip/stats
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[[geoip-stats-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET _ingest/geoip/stats`

[[geoip-stats-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the `monitor` or
`manage` <<privileges-list-cluster,cluster privilege>> to use this API.

* If <<ingest-geoip-downloader-enabled,`ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled`>> is
disabled and no custom databases are configured, this API returns zero values and an empty `nodes` object.

[role="child_attributes"]
[[geoip-stats-api-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`stats`::
(object)
Download statistics for all GeoIP2 databases.
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.Properties of `stats`
[%collapsible%open]
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`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.
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`nodes`::
(object)
Statistics for each node.
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.Properties of `nodes`
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`<node_id>`::
(object)
Downloaded databases for the node. The field key is the node ID.
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.Properties of `<node_id>`
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`databases`::
(array of objects)
Downloaded databases for the node.
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.Properties of `databases` objects
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`name`::
(string)
Name of the database.
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`cache_stats`::
(object)
GeoIP cache stats for the node.
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.Properties of `cache_stats`
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`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.

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`files_in_temp`::
(array of strings)
Downloaded database files, including related license files. {es} stores these
files in the node's <<es-tmpdir,temporary directory>>:
`$ES_TMPDIR/geoip-databases/<node_id>`.
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