# Finding a public IP for geotagging
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-a-public-ip-for-geotagging/237979
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [June 21, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-a-public-ip-for-geotagging/237979 "2020-06-21T22:38:59Z")
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### Author:  [@DPattee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DPattee)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-a-public-ip-for-geotagging/237979/1 "2020-06-21T22:38:59Z")
The scenario is enhancing my metricbeat data to help track a dozen laptops. I thought adding geo data to their low frequency uptime response would be a cheap way to do this. A custom pipeline that all metricbeats data goes through and then branches off if _ctx.metricset.name=='uptime'_ was how I'd keep the lookups to a minimum.
Hit a couple snags though...
The _add\_host\_metadata_ processor with _netinfo.enabled: true_ will add a machine's local IP information.
1. host.ip is an array of all the v4 and v6 addresses a machine reports. The geoip processor can't work on an array of course.
2. host.ip doesn't contain a public IP for machines behind firewalls/balancers/etc anyway
So my question is mainly:
1. How do I easily add a public IP field that I can use to geolocate devices.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-a-public-ip-for-geotagging/237979/2 "2020-07-20T00:39:14Z")
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