# Could not locate that index-pattern-field (id: flow.locality)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441 "2020-03-27T15:41:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![opoplawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opoplawski/32/40442_2.png) [@opoplawski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opoplawski)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441/1 "2020-03-27T15:41:22Z")

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I'm starting to use the Filebeat netflow module. I've imported the filebeat 7.6.1 template and dashboards, but one of the visualizations generates this error:

Could not locate that index-pattern-field (id: flow.locality)

The data certainly contains that field, but I don't see that field in the index template. Should I file a bug or is something else going on? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441/2 "2020-03-30T09:13:09Z")

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Hi @opoplawski!

Could you try to refresh the index template (from Kibana) to see if this changes things?  
However I don't see this field in the mappings: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.6/exported-fields-netflow.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.6/exported-fields-netflow.html)

I think you should open a bug issue for this.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![opoplawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opoplawski/32/40442_2.png) [@opoplawski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opoplawski)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441/3 "2020-04-02T23:33:43Z")

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Refresh doesn't help. I've filed [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/17457](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/17457)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441/4 "2020-04-03T08:12:24Z")

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Hi!

It seems to me that this field is supposed to be part of the ECS fields ([https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/949fb147336e41447c0f842d3e28d9f1073e926d/x-pack/filebeat/input/netflow/convert.go#L178](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/949fb147336e41447c0f842d3e28d9f1073e926d/x-pack/filebeat/input/netflow/convert.go#L178)) but I was not able to find it in the ECS list.

However let's track this in the GH issue to see why the visualisation is not loaded.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-field-id-flow-locality/225441/5 "2020-05-01T08:26:54Z")

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