Describe an index

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

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
pc.describe_index(name="movie-recommendations")

// npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });
await pc.describeIndex('movie-recommendations');

import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_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);
    }
}

package main

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

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

using Pinecone;

var pinecone = new PineconeClient("YOUR_API_KEY");
var indexModel = await pinecone.DescribeIndexAsync("");
Console.WriteLine(indexModel);

PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/movie-recommendations" \
     -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
     -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-04"

# Target the project that contains the index
pc target -o "example-org" -p "example-project"
# Describe the index.
pc index describe --name "movie-recommendations"

{'deletion_protection': 'disabled',
 'dimension': 1536,
 'host': 'movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io',
 'metric': 'cosine',
 'name': 'movie-recommendations',
 'spec': {'serverless': {'cloud': 'aws', 'region': 'us-east-1'}},
 'status': {'ready': True, 'state': 'Ready'},
 'tags': {'environment': 'development'},
 'vector_type': 'dense'}

{
  "name": "movie-recommendations",
  "dimension": 1536,
  "metric": "cosine",
  "host": "movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "deletionProtection": "disabled",
  "tags": { "environment": "development", "example": "tag" },
  "embed": undefined,
  "spec": { "pod": undefined, "serverless": { "cloud": "aws", "region": "us-east-1" } },
  "status": { "ready": true, "state": "Ready" },
  "vectorType": "dense"
}

class IndexModel {
    name: movie-recommendations
    dimension: 1536
    metric: cosine
    host: movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io
    deletionProtection: disabled
    tags: {environment=development}
    embed: null
    spec: class IndexModelSpec {
        pod: null
        serverless: class ServerlessSpec {
            cloud: aws
            region: us-east-1
            additionalProperties: null
        }
        additionalProperties: null
    }
    status: class IndexModelStatus {
        ready: true
        state: Ready
        additionalProperties: null
    }
    vectorType: dense
    additionalProperties: null
}

index: {
  "name": "movie-recommendations",
  "host": "movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "metric": "cosine",
  "vector_type": "dense",
  "deletion_protection": "disabled",
  "dimension": 1536,
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "cloud": "aws",
      "region": "us-east-1"
    }
  },
  "status": {
    "ready": true,
    "state": "Ready"
  },
  "tags": {
    "environment": "development"
  }
}

{
  "name": "movie-recommendations",
  "dimension": 1536,
  "metric": "cosine",
  "host": "movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "deletion_protection": "disabled",
  "tags": {
    "environment": "development"
  },
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "cloud": "aws",
      "region": "us-east-1"
    }
  },
  "status": {
    "ready": true,
    "state": "Ready"
  },
  "vector_type": "dense"
}

{
  "name": "movie-recommendations",
  "vector_type": "dense",
  "metric": "cosine",
  "dimension": 1536,
  "status": {
    "ready": true,
    "state": "Ready"
  },
  "host": "movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "cloud": "aws"
    }
  },
  "deletion_protection": "disabled",
  "tags": {
    "environment": "development"
  }
}

ATTRIBUTE              VALUE
Name                   movie-recommendations
Dimension              1536
Metric                 cosine
Deletion Protection    disabled
Vector Type            dense

State                  Ready
Ready                  true
Host                   movie-recommendations-1c6ab6aa.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io
Private Host           <none>

Spec                   serverless
Cloud                  aws
Region                 us-east-1
Source Collection      <none>