diff --git a/modules/ingest-geoip/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/GeoIpDownloaderIT.java b/modules/ingest-geoip/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/GeoIpDownloaderIT.java
index 77fbcd437d086..4d12b66290f25 100644
--- a/modules/ingest-geoip/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/GeoIpDownloaderIT.java
+++ b/modules/ingest-geoip/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/GeoIpDownloaderIT.java
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ public void testUseGeoIpProcessorWithDownloadedDBs() throws Exception {
         });
     }
 
+    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/79074")
     public void testStartWithNoDatabases() throws Exception {
         assumeTrue("only test with fixture to have stable results", ENDPOINT != null);
         putPipeline();