Capturing of connection type at client, server etc level

[thompson-tomo]

Area(s)

area:client, area:destination, area:network, area:server, area:source

What's missing?

The ability to capture the network connection type and know what side of the connection that it is describing. This information can be provided by geo-ip https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/databases/connection-type/ while at it scope existing attributes to be describing the interface.

Describe the solution you'd like

The following attributes are renamed:

• network.connection.type -> network.interface.type
• network.connection.subtype -> network.interface.subtype

Introduce the following attributes which can be used by geo-ip enrichment:

• client.connection.type
• destination.connection.type
• server.connection.type
• source.connection.type

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[danielcompton]

See also #1663

[thompson-tomo]

Agree #1663 and this will follow an identical pattern.