# Unindexed geo\_point field. What am I missing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 17, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482 "2021-09-17T12:31:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![blueren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blueren)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482/1 "2021-09-17T12:31:55Z")

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I have an elastic db which takes in netflow data and enriches them. I have two fields that are defined as below, in the template. (can verify that the template exists from Kibana \> index management \> mappings)

```auto
"dstGeoLocation": {
        "type": "geo_point"
      },
"srcGeoLocation": {
        "type": "geo_point"
},

```

The field gets populated with a default 0.0, 0.0 co-ordinate if the geo resolution does not happen.  
I'm able to see the field in kibana as below:

 ![Screenshot from 2021-09-17 17-56-43](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/8/586b0ff2a699563bbd1ead5f037fea80e200cdbe.png)

The JSON equivalent being:

```auto
    "srcGeoLocation": [
      {
        "coordinates": [
          0,
          0
        ],
        "type": "Point"
      }
    ],

```

However, Kibana complains that this field is un-indexed:

 ![Screenshot from 2021-09-17 17-58-30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/d/7d6b14b69044594e381a6d2965acc2faf0a50431.png)

What am I missing here? How do I get this searchable / filterable?

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**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:** [September 20, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482/2 "2021-09-20T04:44:09Z")

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Can you try doing a refresh on the index pattern and see if that changes anything?

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**Author:** ![blueren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blueren)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482/3 "2021-09-22T07:13:47Z")

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Mark,

How do I refresh the Kibana index? I remember there was a dedicated refresh button for kibana index pattern. However on 7.x+ it seems to be missing. I read somewhere it was removed.

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**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:** [September 23, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482/4 "2021-09-23T00:13:48Z")

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Yeah it was removed in favour of auto-refresh in newer releases, so don 't worry if it's not there.

And just to confirm, the field is definitely mapped as a geopoint?

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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:** [October 21, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unindexed-geo-point-field-what-am-i-missing/284482/5 "2021-10-21T00:14:19Z")

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