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atlas clusters search indexes create

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Create a search index for a cluster.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Data Access Admin role.

Command Syntax
atlas clusters search indexes create [indexName] [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description

indexName

string

false

Name of the index.

Name
Type
Required
Description

--clusterName

string

true

Name of the cluster. To learn more, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/create-cluster-api.

-f, --file

string

false

Name of the JSON index configuration file to use. To learn about the Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search index configuration file, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/search-index-config-file-atlascli. To learn about the Atlas Search index syntax and options that you can define in your configuration file, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definitions-fts. To learn about the Atlas Vector Search index syntax and options that you can define in your configuration file, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definition-avs.

-h, --help

false

help for create

-o, --output

string

false

Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.

--projectId

string

false

Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.

Name
Type
Required
Description

-P, --profile

string

false

Name of 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.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

Index <Name> created.
# 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

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