create_index

This operation creates a Pinecone index. You can use it to specify the measure of similarity, the dimension of vectors to be stored in the index, the numbers of replicas to use, and more.

cURL

curl --request POST \
     --url https://controller.us-east1-gcp.pinecone.io/databases \
     --header 'accept: text/plain' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "metric": "cosine",
  "pods": 1,
  "replicas": 1,
  "pod_type": "p1.x1"
}
'

Authorizations

Api-Key · string · header · required

An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours at https://app.pinecone.io/.

Body

application/json

Response

201

text/plain

The index has been successfully created

The response is of type string.