# Panw module network.direction unknown **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [May 17, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/panw-module-network-direction-unknown/232999 "2020-05-17T15:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garrett\_Gauthier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/garrett_gauthier/32/67093_2.png) [@Garrett\_Gauthier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garrett_Gauthier)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/panw-module-network-direction-unknown/232999/1 "2020-05-17T15:53:24Z")
The network.direction attribute always states unknown All other attributes seem to be properly populated. Any help. PAN 9.0, syslog in BSD format ---
**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/panw-module-network-direction-unknown/232999/2 "2020-05-18T18:33:34Z")
Can you share the (anonymized) message in `event.original` for those documents with `unknown` direction? ---
**Author:** ![Garrett\_Gauthier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/garrett_gauthier/32/67093_2.png) [@Garrett\_Gauthier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garrett_Gauthier)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/panw-module-network-direction-unknown/232999/3 "2020-05-19T13:26:17Z")
Hello, here are two examples ip addresses changed but internal are the 192.168.0.0 network and external is anything else.. I have 100% unknown for event direction after two weeks of logs. All rulesets are logged at session end. This is an allowed outbound session 1,2020/05/19 06:05:50,007051000100090,TRAFFIC,end,2305,2020/05/19 06:05:50,192.168.1.198,163.254.114.38,34.180.18.198,66.254.114.38,General-Web,,,ssl,vsys1,lan,external,ethernet1/2,ethernet1/1,elk,2020/05/19 06:05:50,166967,1,56202,443,10121,443,0x400034,tcp,allow,763,697,66,4,2020/05/19 06:04:20,0,web-advertisements,0,79979,0x0,192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255,United States,0,3,1,threat,0,0,0,0,,firewall,from-policy,,,0,,0,,N/A,0,0,0,0,b1eaeec4-08c9-4296-ae37-9d601a77d3e9,0,0,,,,,,, This is a inbound deny session 1,2020/05/19 06:19:15,007051000100090,TRAFFIC,drop,2305,2020/05/19 06:19:15,195.54.160.155,53.180.18.198,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,firehol-block,,,not-applicable,vsys1,external,lan,ethernet1/1,,elk,2020/05/19 06:19:15,0,1,53192,80,0,0,0x0,tcp,deny,60,60,0,1,2020/05/19 06:19:15,0,any,0,80543,0x0,Russian Federation,United States,0,1,0,policy-deny,0,0,0,0,,firewall,from-policy,,,0,,0,,N/A,0,0,0,0,727bbf4f-4a9d-4c34-b99e-cc96cce114e7,0,0,,,,,,, ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/panw-module-network-direction-unknown/232999/4 "2020-06-16T13:26:21Z")
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