Geolocated ISP name with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2isp)

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Description

Uses MaxMind GeoIP2 services to return the name of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) associated with an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

How does it work in the search window?

This operation only requires one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Ip (v4 or v6) ^mandatory	ip, ip6

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

We want to get the name of the ISPs associated with the IP addresses in our clientIpAddress column, so we click Create column and select the Geolocated ISP name with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation. Select clientIpAddress as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it isp.

The result is a column of string data type containing the ISP name.

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column.

mm2isp(ip)
mm2isp(ip6)

Example

Copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the demo.ecommerce.data table.

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mm2isp(clientIpAddress) as isp