Customers who sign up for a Standard or Enterprise plan on or after August 18, 2025 cannot create pod-based indexes. Instead, create serverless indexes, and consider using dedicated read nodes for large workloads (millions of records or more, and moderate or high query rates).
Create a pod-based index from a collection
To create a pod-based index from a collection, use thecreate_index
endpoint and provide a source_collection
parameter containing the name of the collection from which you wish to create an index. The new index can differ from the original source index: the new index can have a different name, number of pods, or pod type. The new index is queryable and writable.