# How to get Beat client ip in Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264 "2017-12-12T08:00:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![saravanan\_kutty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@saravanan\_kutty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravanan_kutty)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264/1 "2017-12-12T08:00:12Z")

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Hi,

I am new to ELK and trying to get the IP of the File Beat Client in Kibana through Logstash. tried various option which is available in the forum but unable to find the workable solution. Using ELK 5.6.4.

Any help in this regards is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264/2 "2017-12-12T08:17:55Z")

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Judging by [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-beats/issues/180](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-beats/issues/180) this is available in Logstash 6 as `[@metadata][ip_address]`.

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**Author:** ![saravanan\_kutty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@saravanan\_kutty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravanan_kutty)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264/3 "2017-12-12T11:10:51Z")

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upgraded Logstash to 6 and tried [@metadata][ip\_address] , getting remote ip as 127.0.0.1 which is not right ip.

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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:** [January 9, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-beat-client-ip-in-logstash/111264/4 "2018-01-09T11:11:15Z")

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