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atlas clusters search indexes create
Create a search index for a cluster.
To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key that has the Project Data Access Admin role.
Syntax
atlas clusters search indexes create [indexName] [options]
Arguments
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
indexName | string | false | Name of the index. |
Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--clusterName | string | true | Name of the cluster. |
-f, --file | string | false | Name of the JSON index configuration file to use. To learn about the Atlas Search index syntax and options that you can define in your configuration file, see https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/atlas-search/index-definitions/. |
-h, --help | false | help for create | |
-o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. |
--projectId | string | false | Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable. |
Inherited Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-P, --profile | string | false | Human-readable label that identifies the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file. |
Output
If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.
Index <Name> created.
Examples
# Create a search index for the cluster named myCluster using a JSON index configuration file named search-config.json: atlas clusters search indexes create --clusterName myCluster --file search-config.json --output json