# Need guidance on geoip ingest plugin with Elastic Cloud **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 8, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-guidance-on-geoip-ingest-plugin-with-elastic-cloud/74440 "2017-02-08T22:29:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bohearne\_flp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bohearne_flp/32/15314_2.png) [@bohearne\_flp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bohearne_flp)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-guidance-on-geoip-ingest-plugin-with-elastic-cloud/74440/1 "2017-02-08T22:29:18Z")
I'm trying to understand and implement the geoip ingest plugin to geocode my IP addresses is log files. I am presently using hosted Elastic Cloud, meaning that while I am running my own Logstash instance, ElasticSearch and Kibana are hosted and running on the cloud. This seems to muddy the waters a bit with understanding some documentation and forum posts, as it seems things can be slightly different when the whole ELK stack is hosted together. The question I have here is of that flavor a bit. What I am trying to understand is since Elasticsearch is running on the cloud, and with it the geoip ingest plugin also on the cloud -- how / where does geocoding / assigning a value to the geoip fields in an index happen? I've noticed that by turning on this plugin, I now have those geo- fields in my index, though no value has been assigned to them. (My IP-typed fields are being pulled in for some reasons as strings also, but that's a different question). In this configuration, what is the proper approach to getting those geo- fields properly populated using the cloud-hosted geoip ingest plugin? Thanks.... ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-guidance-on-geoip-ingest-plugin-with-elastic-cloud/74440/2 "2017-02-11T04:44:20Z")
You only need to set it in either Logstash or Ingest. What does your configs look like now? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-guidance-on-geoip-ingest-plugin-with-elastic-cloud/74440/3 "2017-03-11T04:44:47Z")
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