# How to disable geoip usage in 7.16.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-16-2/304676>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-16-2/304676 "2022-05-13T12:17:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![rachit\_upadhyay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rachit_upadhyay/32/102263_2.png) [@rachit\_upadhyay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rachit_upadhyay)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-16-2/304676/1 "2022-05-13T12:17:04Z")

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Hi, I want to disable the usage of geoip functionality because I have no usage for it. I have a three node cluster, which works fine with one voting only node and two master eligible and data nodes.  
The Elasticsearch version is 7.16.2. if you require any other information do comment.

Is there any way to disable completely the .geoip\_database usage and prevent this index from starting?

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-16-2/304676/2 "2022-05-13T13:13:56Z")

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Hi @rachit_upadhyay

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

```

See this post for lots of details

> [@Disabling geoip downloader is not working (elastic 7.16.2 and java 11)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-geoip-downloader-is-not-working-elastic-7-16-2-and-java-11/302523/4):
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> Ok... Looking Close... Ok I downloaded a Fresh 7.16.2 and only added 1 line ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled: false You will still see the initialization of the "default" database upon startup BUT there is no actual geoip database loaded into Elasticsearch... which you already actually confirmed...(see below) You will see these logs lines.. which I think are a bit misleading.... [2022-04-16T19:45:41,128][INFO][o.e.i.g.ConfigDatabases] [hyperion] initialized default databases [[GeoLite2-Co…

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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:** [June 10, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-geoip-usage-in-7-16-2/304676/3 "2022-06-10T13:14:14Z")

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