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Describe an index

Python
# pip install "pinecone[grpc]"
from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

pc.describe_index(name="movie-recommendations")
JavaScript
// npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

await pc.describeIndex('movie-recommendations');
Java
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.control.client.model.*;

public class DescribeIndexExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOURE_API_KEY").build();
        IndexModel indexModel = pc.describeIndex("movie-recommendations");
        System.out.println(indexModel);
    }
}
Go
package main

import (
    "context"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v2/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
    bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
    return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()

    pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
        ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
    }

    idx, err := pc.DescribeIndex(ctx, "movie-recommendations")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to describe index \"%v\": %v", idx.Name, err)
    } else {
        fmt.Printf("index: %v\n", prettifyStruct(idx))
    }
}
C#
using Pinecone;

var pinecone = new PineconeClient("YOUR_API_KEY");

var indexModel = await pinecone.DescribeIndexAsync("docs-example");

Console.WriteLine(indexModel);
curl
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -s -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/movie-recommendations" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2024-07"

GET /indexes/{index_name}

200
{
  "dimension": 1536,
  "host": "movie-recommendations-c01b5b5.svc.us-east1-gcp.pinecone.io",
  "metric": "cosine",
  "name": "movie-recommendations",
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "cloud": "aws",
      "region": "us-east-1"
    }
  },
  "status": {
    "ready": false,
    "state": "Initializing"
  }
}
401
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
    "message": "Invalid API key."
  },
  "status": 401
}
404
{
  "error": {
    "code": "NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "Index example-index not found."
  },
  "status": 404
}
500
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNKNOWN",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "status": 500
}
Api-Keystringrequired

An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the console.

index_namestringrequired

The name of the index to be described.

Typestring

200 — Configuration information and deployment status of the index.

The IndexModel describes the configuration and status of a Pinecone index.

namestringrequired

The name of the index. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.

Required string length: 1 - 45. Example: example-index

Typestring
dimensionintegerrequired

The dimensions of the vectors to be inserted in the index.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 20000. Example: 1536

Typeinteger
metricenum<string>required

The distance metric to be used for similarity search. You can use 'euclidean', 'cosine', or 'dotproduct'.

Available options: cosine, euclidean, dotproduct

Typeenum<string>
Defaultcosine
hoststringrequired

The URL address where the index is hosted.

Example: semantic-search-c01b5b5.svc.us-west1-gcp.pinecone.io

Typestring
deletion_protection?enum<string>

Available options: disabled, enabled

Typeenum<string>
Defaultdisabled

Whether deletion protection is enabled/disabled for the index.

specobjectrequired
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pod?object

Configuration needed to deploy a pod-based index.

Typeobject
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environmentstringrequired

The environment where the index is hosted.

Example: us-east1-gcp

Typestring
replicas?integer

The number of replicas. Replicas duplicate your index. They provide higher availability and throughput. Replicas can be scaled up or down as your needs change.

Required range: 1 <= x

Typeinteger
Default1
shards?integer

The number of shards. Shards split your data across multiple pods so you can fit more data into an index.

Required range: 1 <= x

Typeinteger
Default1
pod_typestringrequired

The type of pod to use. One of s1, p1, or p2 appended with . and one of x1, x2, x4, or x8.

Typestring
Defaultp1.x1
pods?integer

The number of pods to be used in the index. This should be equal to shards x replicas.'

Required range: 1 <= x. Example: 1

Typeinteger
Default1
metadata_config?object

Configuration for the behavior of Pinecone's internal metadata index. By default, all metadata is indexed; when metadata_config is present, only specified metadata fields are indexed. These configurations are only valid for use with pod-based indexes.

Typeobject
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indexed?string[]

By default, all metadata is indexed; to change this behavior, use this property to specify an array of metadata fields that should be indexed.

Typestring[]
source_collection?string

The name of the collection to be used as the source for the index.

Example: movie-embeddings

Typestring
serverless?object

Configuration needed to deploy a serverless index.

Typeobject
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cloudenum<string>required

The public cloud where you would like your index hosted.

Available options: gcp, aws, azure. Example: aws

Typeenum<string>
regionstringrequired

The region where you would like your index to be created.

Example: us-east-1

Typestring
statusobjectrequired
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readybooleanrequired
stateenum<string>required

Available options: Initializing, InitializationFailed, ScalingUp, ScalingDown, ScalingUpPodSize, ScalingDownPodSize, Terminating, Ready

Typeenum<string>
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