Can't get location show up on the map in Kibana

[waynez]

I have been trying to figure out how to get my geo ip location shown up on Kibana map. But I always get the following error:

The "metricbeat*" index pattern does not contain any of the following field types: geo_point

I have the ES 5.6 including the search, Kibana, metric beat, and file beat.

I managed to put some IP into the the metricbeat instances as env fields. The logstash was set up to accept data and put into ElasticSearch (ES).

I could see the data in geoip and I also set up the mapping for its location to be geo_point. But it kept giving me the error.

Please help!!!

Here please find the corresponding mapping (I got through GET /_template in Kibana's DevTools) and data in JSON below.

{
  "metricbeat": {
	"order": 0,
	"template": "metricbeat-*",
	"settings": {
	    "index": {
	        "mapping": {
	            "total_fields": {
	                "limit": "10000"
	            }
	       },
	       "refresh_interval": "5s"
	    }
	},

......

        "properties": {
	    "@timestamp": {
	        "type": "date"
	    },
	    "geoip": {
	        "type": "object",
	        "dynamic": true,
	        "properties": {
	              "location": {
	                  "type": "geo_point"
	              },
 	             "country_name": {
	                 "type": "string"
	             },
	             "city_name": {
	                 "type": "string"
	             },
	             "region_name": {
	                 "type": "string"
	             }
	        },
......

Here is the data in JSON:

{
  "_index": "metricbeat-2017.10.04",
  "_type": "metricsets",
  "_id": "AV7pxbrMOworNTwM-ObM",
  "_version": 1,
  "_score": null,
  "_source": {
    "host_ip": "198.241.217.201",
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-04T23:43:21.818Z",
    "system": {
      "filesystem": {
        "total": 0,
        "device_name": "sysfs",
        "free_files": 0,
        "mount_point": "/sys",
        "available": 0,
        "files": 0,
        "used": {
          "pct": 0,
          "bytes": 0
        },
        "free": 0
      }
    },
    "geoip": {
      "country_name": "United States",
      "city_name": "San Francisco",
      "region_name": "California",
      "location": {
        "lon": -122.3802,
        "lat": 37.6198
      }
    },
    "beat": {
      "name": "wzhang_EPSim_21",
      "hostname": "wzhang_EPSim_21",
      "version": "5.6.2"
    },

[andrewkroh]

I recommend checking the mapping for the metricbeat-2017.10.04 to verify the location field type. The template will only apply to new indices so maybe the index already existed with the geoip field before the template was setup.

If the mapping is correct then refresh the index pattern in Kibana. If you have indices with different mappings for the same field then you will get an warning. If that happens you can _reindex the old data.