Serverless indexes do not support collections.

```python Python theme={null}
# pip install "pinecone[grpc]"
from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key='API_KEY')
pc.describe_collection(name="tiny-collection")
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
// npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

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

await pc.describeCollection('tiny-collection');
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.client.model.CollectionModel;

public class DescribeCollectionExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
        CollectionModel collectionModel = pc.describeCollection("tiny-collection");
        System.out.println(collectionModel);
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

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)
    }

    collectionName := "tiny-collection"

    collection, err := pc.DescribeCollection(ctx, collectionName)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Error describing collection %v: %v", collectionName, err)
    } else {
        fmt.Printf("Collection: %+v", collection)
    }
}
```

```csharp C# theme={null}
using Pinecone;

var pinecone = new PineconeClient("YOUR_API_KEY");

var collectionModel = await pinecone.DescribeCollectionAsync("tiny-collection");

Console.WriteLine(collectionModel);
```

```shell curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/collections/tiny-collection" \
     -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
     -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-04"
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
    "name": "example-collection",
    "status": "Ready",
    "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
    "size": 3075398,
    "vector_count": 99,
    "dimension": 1536
}
```

`GET /collections/{collection_name}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/collections/{collection_name} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "name": "example-collection",
  "size": 10000000,
  "status": "Initializing",
  "dimension": 1536,
  "vector_count": 120000,
  "environment": "us-east1-gcp"
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Path Parameters

- `collection_name` (path, string, required) — The name of the collection to be described.

## Response

- `200` — Configuration information and status of the collection.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `404` — Collection not found.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Create a backup of an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup.md)
- [List backups for all indexes in a project](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups.md)
- [List backups for an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups.md)
- [Describe a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup.md)
- [Delete a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup.md)
- [Create an index from a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md)
- [List restore jobs](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md)
- [Describe a restore job](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md)
- [List collections](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-collections.md)
- [Create a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-collection.md)

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