June 2019 Documentation Changes

New docs

The following documents are new to the help desk support series as part of our regular documentation update efforts:

  • Log streaming: Kafka
  • Kafka
  • Wasabi

Recently edited and reviewed docs

The following documentation was edited as part of a normal review cycle or as a result of updates to how the Fastly web interface and API operate:

  • About the Fastly WAF dashboard
  • Amazon S3
  • Configuring user roles and permissions
  • Custom log formats
  • Fastly WAF logging
  • Fastly WAF rule set updates and maintenance
  • Log streaming: Cloud Files
  • Routing assets to different origins
  • Understanding cache HIT and MISS headers with shielded services
  • Working with services

We've updated all of the logging endpoint guides to include information about the new Placement feature.

The following API documentation was edited as part of a normal review cycle or as a result of updates to how the Fastly API operates:

  • Billing
  • Cloudfiles
  • Dictionary Info
  • Event Logs

New and recently updated VCL docs

The following documents are new to the VCL documentation:

  • bereq.body_bytes_written
  • bereq.header_bytes_written
  • client.geo.city.latin1
  • client.geo.country_name.latin1
  • client.geo.ip_override
  • client.geo.region.ascii
  • client.geo.region.latin1
  • client.geo.region.utf8
  • parse_time_delta()
  • Server
  • server.hostname
  • server.identity
  • std.anystr2ip()

The following documents were edited by request, as part of the normal doc review cycle, or as a result of updates to how Fastly's Varnish operates:

  • client.as.name
  • client.as.number
  • client.geo.city.utf8
  • client.geo.conn_speed
  • client.geo.continent_code
  • client.geo.country_code
  • client.geo.country_name.ascii
  • client.geo.country_name
  • client.geo.gmt_offset
  • client.geo.latitude
  • client.geo.longitude
  • client.geo.metro_code
  • client.geo.postal_code
  • client.geo.region
  • Geolocation
  • regsub()
  • req.body_bytes_read
  • req.bytes_read
  • req.header_bytes_read
  • resp.body_bytes_written
  • resp.bytes_written
  • table.lookup()

New and recently updated Japanese translations

The following Japanese (日本語) translations were recently updated to reflect changes in their English counterparts:

  • Fastly WAF ルールセットの更新とメンテナンス
  • カスタムログ形式

Our documentation archive contains PDF snapshots of docs.fastly.com site content as of the above date. Previous updates can be found in the archive as well.