[role="xpack"]
[[indices-create-data-stream]]
=== Create data stream API
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<titleabbrev>Create data stream</titleabbrev>
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Creates a new <<data-streams,data stream>>.

Data streams require a matching <<indices-templates,index template>>.
See <<set-up-a-data-stream>>.

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[source,console]
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PUT /_index_template/template
{
  "index_patterns": ["my-data-stream*"],
  "template": {
    "mappings": {
      "properties": {
        "@timestamp": {
          "type": "date"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "data_stream": {
    "timestamp_field": "@timestamp"
  }
}
----
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[source,console]
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PUT /_data_stream/my-data-stream
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// TEST[continued]

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[source,console]
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DELETE /_data_stream/my-data-stream
DELETE /_index_template/template
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// TEST[continued]
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[[indices-create-data-stream-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`PUT /_data_stream/<data-stream>`

[[indices-create-data-stream-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<data-stream>`::
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--
(Required, string) Name of the data stream to create.

Data stream names must meet the following criteria:

- Lowercase only
- Cannot include `\`, `/`, `*`, `?`, `"`, `<`, `>`, `|`, ` ` (space character),
`,`, `#`, `:`
- Cannot start with `-`, `_`, `+`, `.`
- Cannot be `.` or `..`
- Cannot be longer than 255 bytes (note it is bytes, so multi-byte characters
will count towards the 255 limit faster)
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