# Winlogbeat Could not index event to Elasticsearch (source.ip: LOCAL)

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**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-source-ip-local/239658 "2020-07-02T14:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![MakoWish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@MakoWish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MakoWish)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-source-ip-local/239658/1 "2020-07-02T14:56:18Z")

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I am seeing quite a lot of errors in Logstash for Winlogbeat events failing to index. The error indicates events are coming in with "source.ip: LOCAL" which is not a valid IP address. If for some reason the literal string for the IP address is being read as "LOCAL", the agent should convert this to "127.0.0.1" to prevent index failures.

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Jul 02 07:43:04 Logstash1 logstash[7790]: [2020-07-02T07:43:04,974][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch][main][1b0d38a63ac70b958df647ae2a47badf4ac8161e6df5e7eb331817d2b52dfa28] Could not index event to Elasticsearch. {:status=>400, :action=>["index", {:_id=>nil, :_index=>"winlogbeat-7.8.0", :routing=>nil, :_type=>"_doc"}, #<LogStash::Event:0x5a7b7089>], :response=>{"index"=>{"_index"=>"winlogbeat-7.8.0-2020.07.02-000015", "_type"=>"_doc", "_id"=>"-nL7D3MB9q2MOx9CKDBo", "status"=>400, "error"=>{"type"=>"mapper_parsing_exception", "reason"=>"failed to parse field [source.ip] of type [ip] in document with id '-nL7D3MB9q2MOx9CKDBo'. Preview of field's value: 'LOCAL'", "caused_by"=>{"type"=>"illegal_argument_exception", "reason"=>"'LOCAL' is not an IP string literal."}}}}}

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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:** [July 30, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-source-ip-local/239658/2 "2020-07-30T16:56:21Z")

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