# Index template not being applied
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 18, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277 "2019-10-18T20:34:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@John\_Doe3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe3)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/1 "2019-10-18T20:34:02Z")
To achieve my goal - map geo location data from nginx logs to a map - I added a index template to ES with command like this:
```
PUT _template/nginx-default
{
"template": "nginx-*",
"order": 0,
"index_patterns" : [
"nginx*"
],
"settings": {
"index.mapping.ignore_malformed": true
},
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"@timestamp" : {
"type" : "date"
},
```
...
"geoip" : {
"location" : {
"type": "geo\_point"
},
},
...
}
}
After creating this template, I issued a complete reload of all data (removed indices from ES and deleted registry file in filebeat - I dont have that much data).
The location field contains two properties, lat and lon, submitted as numbers:
```
geoip.location.lat: number
geoip.location.lon: number
```
Example:
```
|#geoip.location.lat|37.751|
|---|---|
|#geoip.location.lon|-97.822|
```
But when I try to create a map, I still get the feedback, that there is no geo\_ip field:
> The index pattern nginx\* does not contain any of the following compatible field types: geo\_point
What am I missing here?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/2 "2019-10-18T20:43:56Z")
Can you show the name and full mapping of one of the indices? Can you show a sample indexed document?
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### Author:  [@John\_Doe3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe3)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/3 "2019-10-19T14:42:08Z")
Sure.. the name of one index is "nginx-2019-04".
find the data here:
[https://pastebin.com/fmVb4f59](https://pastebin.com/fmVb4f59)
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/4 "2019-10-19T17:38:24Z")
When you look at an indexed document is the location geo\_point field filled in
How are you ingesting the data?
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### Author:  [@John\_Doe3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe3)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/5 "2019-10-20T08:54:53Z")
Hey
yes, it is (you can see it on pastebin,let me post relevant part here again:
```
"geoip": {
"ip": "123.456.789.0",
"country_code2": "DE",
"location": {
"lon": 13.123,
"lat": 52.123
},
"region_code": "BE",
"continent_code": "EU",
"timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
"city_name": "Berlin",
"country_code3": "DE",
"latitude": 52.123,
"postal_code": "12345",
"country_name": "Germany",
"region_name": "Land Berlin",
"longitude": 13.456
},
```
The index on Kibana, though, does not show the location-field itself, but it's properties (lon / lat):
Data comes from Filebeat, via Logstash, where I configured filering. This is the GeoIp-Part:
```
geoip {
source => "[nginx][access][client]"
}
```
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/6 "2019-10-20T09:20:48Z")
Was the index created after you added the index template? The template only applies when the index is first created as you can not change mappings in existing indices.
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### Author:  [@John\_Doe3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe3)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/7 "2019-10-20T12:13:49Z")
That's what I was missing. I only deleted the Index in Elasticsearch. So, this template applies to the data when creating the Kibana Index, not the Elastic Search Index.
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template-not-being-applied/204277/8 "2019-11-17T12:13:52Z")
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