# How can I see the IP from which a post originated?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-see-the-ip-from-which-a-post-originated/28328>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [05.Май.2015 12:03:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-see-the-ip-from-which-a-post-originated/28328 "2015-05-05T12:03:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [12.Апрель.2018 22:27:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-see-the-ip-from-which-a-post-originated/28328/10 "2018-04-12T22:27:24Z")

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> [@rizka](#):
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> Seeing the IP address from which the post was sent from would be a nice hint.

Assuming it was recent you can just grep for his username in the nginx logs.

`zgrep username /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log/nginx/access.log.*.gz`

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