# How to disable geoip usage in 7.14.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-14-0/281076>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-14-0/281076 "2021-08-11T13:40:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Przemko\_Robakowski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/przemko_robakowski/32/93246_2.png) [@Przemko\_Robakowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Przemko_Robakowski)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-14-0/281076/9 "2021-08-16T22:34:53Z")

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I was able to reproduce this and can confirm that it's real issue. I've opened [#76586](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/76586) to track it and I'll work on a fix.

For now a workaround should be to use cluster settings API instead of `elasticsearch.yml`:

```auto
PUT _cluster/settings
{
    "persistent": {
       "ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled": true
    }
}

PUT _cluster/settings
{
    "persistent": {
       "ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled": false
    }
}

```

(it has to be enabled first for cluster to notice change, no need for restart between and after these calls)

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