set this to false
ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled: false
Restart elasticsearch let it come all the way up...
then reset to true
ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled: true
Then restart...let it come all the way up...
Then look at the stats...
There is also a tmp directory involved which must be writable / have space....
You can look at the elasticsearch logs
Elasticsearch stores downloaded database files in each node’s temporary directory at
$ES_TMPDIR/geoip-databases/<node_id>.