An index policy specifies the indexing mode for a collection and includes a list of paths to index, or to exclude. The includedPaths
key lists all the indexes in a container, the index types to be used, matching data types, and the index precision. Indexing policies can be manipulated on the fly by editing them on the Azure portal or with the Cosmos DB SDK.
Now we will use the Azure portal to check the indexing policy for the Competitions1
document collection.
In the Azure portal, make sure you are in the page for the Cosmos DB account in the portal. Click on the Data Explorer
option, click on the database name you used in the configuration for the examples in previous chapters (Competition
) to expand the collections for the database, and click on the collection name you used for the examples (Competitions1
). Click on Scale & Settings
and scroll down to the JSON document shown under Indexing Policy
. The following lines show...