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Pinecone Describe Index Example

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Pinecone Describe Index Example is an example object payload from Pinecone, with 6 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

operationIdmethodpathsummaryrequestExamplesresponseExamples

Example Payload

{
  "operationId": "describe_index",
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/indexes/{index_name}",
  "summary": "Describe an index",
  "requestExamples": [],
  "responseExamples": [
    {
      "status": "200",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "movie-recommendations-serverless",
      "example": {
        "dimension": 1536,
        "host": "movie-recommendations-c01b5b5.svc.us-east1-gcp.pinecone.io",
        "metric": "cosine",
        "name": "movie-recommendations",
        "spec": {
          "serverless": {
            "cloud": "aws",
            "read_capacity": {
              "mode": "OnDemand",
              "status": {
                "state": "Ready"
              }
            },
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "schema": {
              "fields": {
                "genre": {
                  "filterable": true
                },
                "title": {
                  "filterable": true
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "status": {
          "ready": false,
          "state": "Initializing"
        },
        "vector_type": "dense"
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "200",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "movie-recommendations-pod",
      "example": {
        "dimension": 1536,
        "host": "movie-recommendations-c01b5b5.svc.us-east1-gcp.pinecone.io",
        "metric": "cosine",
        "name": "movie-recommendations",
        "spec": {
          "pod": {
            "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
            "metadata_config": {
              "indexed": [
                "genre",
                "title",
                "imdb_rating"
              ]
            },
            "pod_type": "p1.x1",
            "pods": 1,
            "replicas": 1,
            "shards": 1
          }
        },
        "status": {
          "ready": false,
          "state": "Initializing"
        },
        "vector_type": "dense"
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "401",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "unauthorized",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
          "message": "Invalid API key."
        },
        "status": 401
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "404",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "index-not-found",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "NOT_FOUND",
          "message": "Index example-index not found."
        },
        "status": 404
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "500",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "internal-server-error",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "UNKNOWN",
          "message": "Internal server error"
        },
        "status": 500
      }
    }
  ]
}

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