# How to get internal ip address from filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769 "2019-02-25T08:23:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![NerdSec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerdsec/32/22056_2.png) [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769/21 "2019-03-04T03:59:28Z")

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Hi Varun,

I believe you are using Logstash to ingest and parse the data that you receive from FileBeat.

Could you please answer a few questions?

1. Are you using the GeoIP filter in Logstash?
2. Have you defined any specific mappings in Elasticsearch as defined in this blog post for GeoIP?  
[GeoIP in the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Ingest API | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/geoip-in-the-elastic-stack)
3. What is the field structure for the IP address field?  
I ask you this because you mentioned this:

> [@varun1992](#):
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> but if it is internal like 10.?.?.? , i am not getting ip address in the field

I believe the fields are populated by the GeoIP filter (Logstash, Beats or any other ETL on the planet), and if so, it **does not work if the IP address is a private IP**.

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**Author:** ![varun1992](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3da27b/32.png) [@varun1992](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varun1992)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769/22 "2019-03-07T12:55:17Z")

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1. i think filebeat iis using geoip filter

2. i didn't do anything. all default to iis filebeat

3. ip address field will be like 10.0.0.1

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**Author:** ![varun1992](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3da27b/32.png) [@varun1992](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varun1992)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769/23 "2019-03-27T14:40:09Z")

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what is the solution for that ?

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**Author:** ![NerdSec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerdsec/32/22056_2.png) [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769/24 "2019-04-01T07:20:27Z")

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> [@NerdSec](#):
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> **does not work if the IP address is a private IP**.

Hi Varun,

As mentioned earlier. GeoIP cannot work on a private IP. You will have to do the enrichment yourself.

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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:** [April 29, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-internal-ip-address-from-filebeat/169769/25 "2019-04-29T07:20:38Z")

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