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 1e285d6324785..682d18ccc6317 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
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ public void testUseGeoIpProcessorWithDownloadedDBs() throws Exception {
         });
     }
 
-    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/79074")
+    @TestLogging(value = "org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip:TRACE", reason = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/79074")
     public void testStartWithNoDatabases() throws Exception {
         assumeTrue("only test with fixture to have stable results", ENDPOINT != null);
         putPipeline();
diff --git a/modules/ingest-geoip/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/DatabaseNodeService.java b/modules/ingest-geoip/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/DatabaseNodeService.java
index 87053f176da7c..36240070f3a98 100644
--- a/modules/ingest-geoip/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/DatabaseNodeService.java
+++ b/modules/ingest-geoip/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/geoip/DatabaseNodeService.java
@@ -324,10 +324,11 @@ void updateDatabase(String databaseFileName, String recordedMd5, Path file) {
                 Predicate<GeoIpProcessor.DatabaseUnavailableProcessor> predicate = p -> databaseFileName.equals(p.getDatabaseName());
                 var ids = ingestService.getPipelineWithProcessorType(GeoIpProcessor.DatabaseUnavailableProcessor.class, predicate);
                 if (ids.isEmpty() == false) {
+                    LOGGER.debug("pipelines [{}] found to reload", ids);
                     for (var id : ids) {
                         try {
                             ingestService.reloadPipeline(id);
-                            LOGGER.debug(
+                            LOGGER.trace(
                                 "successfully reloaded pipeline [{}] after downloading of database [{}] for the first time",
                                 id,
                                 databaseFileName
@@ -343,6 +344,8 @@ void updateDatabase(String databaseFileName, String recordedMd5, Path file) {
                             );
                         }
                     }
+                } else {
+                    LOGGER.debug("no pipelines found to reload");
                 }
             }
             LOGGER.info("successfully reloaded changed geoip database file [{}]", file);