# GeoIP Troubles

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-troubles/245824
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-troubles/245824 "2020-08-20T21:22:26Z")
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#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-troubles/245824/2 "2020-08-21T05:25:49Z")

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Hi @Midnigh7

I am not saying this is the issue but perhaps take at this similar issue. In short if your field name is `source.ip` on ingest and valid json is not created the rest of the ingest pipelines won't work. That is what the dot expander is for.

[Filebeat json to Elasticsearch, error processing pipeline](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-json-to-elasticsearch-error-processing-pipeline/245767/2)

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