View index information

This page shows you how to get information about all of your indexes or about a specific index.

To learn about the concepts related to indexes, see Indexes.

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List all indexes in a project

Use the list_indexes operation to get a complete description of all indexes in a project:

With the Python client, you can use the .names() helper function to iterate over the index names in the list_indexes() response, for example:

from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone
from pinecone import ServerlessSpec

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

index_name = "new-index"
if index_name not in pc.list_indexes().names():
  # Do something, such as create the index
  pc.create_index(
    name=index_name,
    dimension=1536,
    metric='cosine',
    spec=ServerlessSpec(
      cloud="aws",
      region="us-east-1"
    )
  )

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Get information about an index

Use the describe_index operation to get a complete description of a specific index: