[geoip.location is not of type geo_point] Index pattern does not contain any of the following field types: geo_point

Problem

  • I am not able to plot any coordinate map as index pattern does not contain any of the following field types: geo_point.
  • Upon further investigating the index pattern - the geoip.location has properties [loc, lat] but on request from the elastic search for the mapping the following key is not of type geo_point.
  • I am utilising logstash "COMBINEDAPACHELOG" capability with geoip plugin to parse all the keys [ keys such as country_name, city_name are obtained from the same ]
  • I could see no geo_point type for geoip.location when i obtained the mapping from elastic search. [Find snippet below]

Current Environment

  • Stack being utilised is ELK with filebeat
  • Versions
    • Elastic Search - 5.5.0v
    • Logstash - 5.5.0v
    • Kibana - 5.5.0v
    • Filebeats - 5.5.1v

Log stash Pipeline

input {
	beats {
    	port => 5000
  	}
}
filter {
    grok {
        match => { "message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}"}
    }
    geoip {
        source => "clientip"
    }
    date {
    	match => [ "timestamp", "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z" ]
    }
}
output {
	elasticsearch {
		hosts => "elasticsearch:9200"
		index => "apache-logs"
	}
}

GET Mapping from Elastic Search - Short Snipper from the actual [Type Mismatch here]

{
  "apache-logs": {
    "mappings": {
      "log": {
        "properties": {
          "@timestamp": {
            "type": "date"
          },
          "clientip": {
            "fields": {
              "keyword": {
                "ignore_above": 256,
                "type": "keyword"
              }
            },
            "type": "text"
          },
          "geoip": {
            "properties": {
              "city_name": {
                "fields": {
                  "keyword": {
                    "ignore_above": 256,
                    "type": "keyword"
                  }
                },
                "type": "text"
              },
              "ip": {
                "fields": {
                  "keyword": {
                    "ignore_above": 256,
                    "type": "keyword"
                  }
                },
                "type": "text"
              },
              "latitude": {
                "type": "float"
              },
              "location": {
                "properties": {
                  "lat": {
                    "type": "float"
                  },
                  "lon": {
                    "type": "float"
                  }
                }
              },
              "longitude": {
                "type": "float"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Solutions tried

  • Refreshing the index multiple times.
  • The map rendering had worked previously with older versions of elastic search 4.xx, not able to replicate the same.
  • PUT mapping_index to set type geo_point explicitly which returned the following error
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
        "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: mapping type is missing;"
      }
    ],
    "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
    "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: mapping type is missing;"
  },
  "status": 400
}
  • Explicitly set geoip.location.lat, long to float as indicated from Digital Ocean Blog
  • Followed the steps exactly from Elastic blog but still did not resolve the issue

I would be grateful if anyone can help me resolve this issue.

I too am having the same issue, using Elasticsearch 5.5.0, Logstash 5.5.0, Kibana 5.5.0 but using Filebeat v5.1.2

Ah ha! I've just resolved this. I was able to update the logstash template and force the mapping to be a geo_point. (I did this from the DevTools pane in Kibana)

PUT _template/logstash
{
  "template": "logstash-*", 
  "settings": {
    "number_of_replicas": 1,
    "number_of_shards": 2
  },
  "mappings": {
    "my_type": {
      "dynamic": "true",
      "properties": {
        "geoip": {
          "dynamic": true,
          "properties": {
            "location": {
              "type": "geo_point"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

After doing this I deleted my index, which logstash then recreated with the correct mappings.

Best of luck!

Thank you for the information. Your solution worked for me :smiley:

Though while checking all the templates present

GET http://localhost:9200/_template
{
    apache-logs:  {	
        order
        template: "apache-logs"
        settings	
        mappings: Object
        aliases
    }
    logstash	{
        order: 0
        version: 50001
        template: "logstash-*"
        settings	
        index	
        refresh_interval: "5s"
        mappings: Object
        aliases
    }
}

Upon checking the default logstash template, it already had geoip.location with type "geo_point" without explicitly me setting it like in the case of my index apache-logs

So i purged all the data from logstash, filebeat, elastic-search & Kibana and started the whole process again with the only change being my index name as logstash-apache and the geoip.location by default in kibana had the geo_point type and everything worked as is.

Thanks for your input, maybe try the same and see if it works for you directly without the explicit update of the mapping.

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