# 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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**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):
>
> 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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