# Ignore plugin error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013 "2015-12-01T09:43:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013/1 "2015-12-01T09:43:13Z")

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I am using geoip plugin to geo code IP, but sometimes, event are coming with a wrong IP then geoip plugin throws error then nothing is output 😕

[https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-geoip/blob/master/lib/logstash/filters/geoip.rb#L160](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-geoip/blob/master/lib/logstash/filters/geoip.rb#L160)

Is it possible to silent error for specified plugins?

Thanks,

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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 1, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013/2 "2015-12-01T11:16:18Z")

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You could wrap the geoip filter in a conditional block and skip it unless the field looks like an IP address.

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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013/3 "2015-12-09T17:55:55Z")

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Yes, it was I finally done:

```
ruby
{
   init => "require 'resolv'"
   code => "event['valid_ip'] = !!(event['ip'] =~ Resolv::IPv4::Regex)"
}
```

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-plugin-error/36013/4 "2017-07-06T05:19:18Z")

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