Unable to select correct Index in map visualisation

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1

Hi all, I have ingested some log data with logstash, applied the geoip filter and the geoip fileds are populating however when I try to create a map visualisation, the index with the data is not available?
What am I missing here?

2

Have you checked if your index mapping has the geo_point type where your cordinates are stored? You need to specify the type manually in your index mapping, otherwise the data is inserted as a different type, logstash won't do that for you.

3

hi @jsanz I created my index before ingestion with the following code

PUT /bitvise-geo
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 1
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "properties" : {
            "geoip.location": { "type": "geo_point" }
        }
    }
}

However I don't seem to have a geoip.location field in the output only these

geoip.location.lat
geoip.location.lon
geoip.longitude
geoip.latitude
4

Objects are one of the supported types for geo_point, there's plenty of posts on this topic here at discuss, I've found this one where a colleague suggests to refresh the index pattern in Kibana.

What do you see on your index pattern?

Another thing to try is to do a simple geospatial query against your index to confirm your data is stored as geometries, for example:

GET bitvise-geo/_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [ { "match_all": {} } ],
      "filter": {
        "geo_bounding_box": {
          "geoip.location": {
            "top_left": { "lat": 90, "lon": -120 },
            "bottom_right": { "lat": -90, "lon": 120}
          } } } } } }
5

I ended up having to re-create the index pattern but at least it's working now.
Thanks for your help!