September 2019 Documentation Changes

New docs

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

  • Elasticsearch
  • Elasticsearch (API)
  • Fastly's Legacy Media Shield
  • Segmented Caching
  • WAF rule set update for 2019-08-29

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 web interface controls
  • Changing log line formats
  • Controlling caching
  • Custom responses that don't hit origin servers
  • Fastly's Media Shield
  • Fastly WAF rule set updates and maintenance
  • Generating HTTP redirects at the edge
  • Managing domains on TLS certificates
  • Paying your bill
  • Resource limits
  • Serving stale content
  • Setting up remote log streaming
  • Single purges
  • Streaming Miss
  • Summary product definitions
  • TLS key and certificate replacement
  • Using Fastly with apex domains
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Working with Edge Dictionaries using the web interface
  • Working with services

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:

  • Event Logs
  • Service
  • VCL Snippets
  • Version

New and recently updated VCL docs

The following documents are new to the VCL documentation:

  • Segmented Caching VCL features
  • String manipulation VCL features
  • substr()
  • utf8.codepoint_count()
  • utf8.is_valid()
  • utf8.substr()

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:

  • req.backend

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.