Create index

Introduced 1.0 {: .label .label-purple }

While you can create an index by using a document as a base, you can also create an empty index for later use.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to create an index with a non-default number of primary and replica shards, specifies that age is of type integer, and assigns a sample-alias1 alias to the index.

PUT /sample-index1
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": 2,
      "number_of_replicas": 1
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "age": {
        "type": "integer"
      }
    }
  },
  "aliases": {
    "sample-alias1": {}
  }
}

Path and HTTP methods

PUT <index-name>

Index naming restrictions

OpenSearch indexes have the following naming restrictions:

All letters must be lowercase.
Index names can't begin with underscores (_) or hyphens (-).
Index names can't contain spaces, commas, or the following characters:

:, ", *, +, /, \, |, ?, #, >, or <

URL parameters

You can include the following URL parameters in your request. All parameters are optional.

Parameter	Type	Description
wait_for_active_shards	String	Specifies the number of active shards that must be available before OpenSearch processes the request. Default is 1 (only the primary shard). Set to `all` or a positive integer. Values greater than 1 require replicas. For example, if you specify a value of 3, the index must have two replicas distributed across two additional nodes for the request to succeed.
master_timeout	Time	How long to wait for a connection to the master node. Default is `30s`.
timeout	Time	How long to wait for the request to return. Default is `30s`.

Request body

As part of your request, you can supply parameters in your request's body that specify index settings, mappings, and aliases for your newly created index. The following sections provide more information about index settings and mappings.

Index settings

Index settings are separated into two varieties: static index settings and dynamic index settings. Static index settings are settings that you specify at index creation and can't change later. You can change dynamic settings at any time, including at index creation.

Static index settings

Setting	Description
index.number_of_shards	The number of primary shards in the index. Default is 1.
index.number_of_routing_shards	The number of routing shards used to split an index.
index.shard.check_on_startup	Whether the index's shards should be checked for corruption. Available options are `false` (do not check for corruption), `checksum` (check for physical corruption), and `true` (check for both physical and logical corruption). Default is `false`.
index.codec	The compression type to use to compress stored data. Available values are `default` (optimizes for retrieval speed) and `best_compression` (optimizes for better compression at the expense of speed, leading to smaller data sizes on disk). For snapshot distributions built with the sandbox feature enabled, `-Dsandbox.enabled=true`, OpenSearch offers a custom-codecs plugin that supports the value `zstd` for Zstandard compression.
index.routing_partition_size	The number of shards a custom routing value can go to. Routing helps an imbalanced cluster by relocating values to a subset of shards rather than just a single shard. To enable, set this value to greater than 1 but less than `index.number_of_shards`. Default is 1.
index.soft_deletes.retention_lease.period	The maximum amount of time to retain a shard's history of operations. Default is `12h`.
index.load_fixed_bitset_filters_eagerly	Whether OpenSearch should pre-load cached filters. Available options are `true` and `false`. Default is `true`.
index.hidden	Whether the index should be hidden. Hidden indexes are not returned as part of queries that have wildcards. Available options are `true` and `false`. Default is `false`.

Dynamic index Settings

Setting	Description
index.number_of_replicas	The number of replica shards each primary shard should have. For example, if you have 4 primary shards and set `index.number_of_replicas` to 3, the index has 12 replica shards. Default is 1.
index.auto_expand_replicas	Whether the cluster should automatically add replica shards based on the number of data nodes. Specify a lower bound and upper limit (for example, 0-9), or `all` for the upper limit. For example, if you have 5 data nodes and set `index.auto_expand_replicas` to 0-3, then the cluster does not automatically add another replica shard. However, if you set this value to `0-all` and add 2 more nodes for a total of 7, the cluster will expand to now have 6 replica shards. Default is disabled.
index.search.idle.after	Amount of time a shard should wait for a search or get request until it goes idle. Default is `30s`.
index.refresh_interval	How often the index should refresh, which publishes its most recent changes and makes them available for searching. Can be set to `-1` to disable refreshing. Default is `1s`.
index.max_result_window	The maximum value of `from` + `size` for searches to the index. `from` is the starting index to search from, and `size` is the amount of results to return. Default: 10000.
index.max_inner_result_window	Maximum value of `from` + `size` to return nested search hits and most relevant document aggregated during the query. `from` is the starting index to search from, and `size` is the amount of top hits to return. Default is 100.
index.max_rescore_window	The maximum value of `window_size` for rescore requests to the index. Rescore requests reorder the index's documents and return a new score, which can be more precise. Default is the same as index.max_inner_result_window or 10000 by default.
index.max_docvalue_fields_search	Maximum amount of `docvalue_fields` allowed in a query. Default is 100.
index.max_script_fields	Maximum amount of `script_fields` allowed in a query. Default is 32.
index.max_ngram_diff	Maximum difference between `min_gram` and `max_gram` values for `NGramTokenizer` and `NGramTokenFilter` fields. Default is 1.
index.max_shingle_diff	Maximum difference between `max_shingle_size` and `min_shingle_size` to feed into the `shingle` token filter. Default is 3.
index.max_refresh_listeners	Maximum amount of refresh listeners each shard is allowed to have.
index.analyze.max_token_count	Maximum amount of tokens that can return from the `_analyze` API operation. Default is 10000.
index.highlight.max_analyzed_offset	The amount of characters a highlight request can analyze. Default is 1000000.
index.max_terms_count	The maximum amount of terms a terms query can accept. Default is 65536.
index.max_regex_length	The maximum character length of regex that can be in a regexp query. Default is 1000.
index.query.default_field	A field or list of fields that OpenSearch uses in queries in case a field isn't specified in the parameters.
index.routing.allocation.enable	Specifies options for the index’s shard allocation. Available options are all (allow allocation for all shards), primaries (allow allocation only for primary shards), new_primaries (allow allocation only for new primary shards), and none (do not allow allocation). Default is all.
index.routing.rebalance.enable	Enables shard rebalancing for the index. Available options are `all` (allow rebalancing for all shards), `primaries` (allow rebalancing only for primary shards), `replicas` (allow rebalancing only for replicas), and `none` (do not allow rebalancing). Default is `all`.
index.gc_deletes	Amount of time to retain a deleted document's version number. Default is `60s`.
index.default_pipeline	The default ingest node pipeline for the index. If the default pipeline is set and the pipeline does not exist, then index requests fail. The pipeline name `_none` specifies that the index does not have an ingest pipeline.
index.final_pipeline	The final ingest node pipeline for the index. If the final pipeline is set and the pipeline does not exist, then index requests fail. The pipeline name `_none` specifies that the index does not have an ingest pipeline.

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