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# atlas clusters search indexes create

Create a search index for a cluster.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account, a service account, or an API key with the Project Data Access Admin role.

## Syntax

```text
atlas clusters search indexes create [indexName] [options]
```

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| indexName | string | false | Name of the index. |

## Options

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| --clusterName | string | true | Name of the cluster. To learn more, see [https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/create-cluster-api.](https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/create-cluster-api) |
| -f, --file | string | false | Name of the JSON index configuration file to use. To learn about the Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search index configuration file, see [https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/search-index-config-file-atlascli](https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/search-index-config-file-atlascli). To learn about the Atlas Search index syntax and options that you can define in your configuration file, see [https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definitions-fts](https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definitions-fts). To learn about the Atlas Vector Search index syntax and options that you can define in your configuration file, see [https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definition-avs.](https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/index-definition-avs) |
| -h, --help |  | false | help for create |
| -o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option. |
| --projectId | string | false | Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable. |

## Inherited Options

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| -P, --profile | string | false | Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see [https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.](https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings) |

## Output

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

```text
Index <Name> created.
```

## Examples

```text
# Create a search index for the cluster named myCluster using a JSON index configuration file named search-config.json:
atlas clusters search indexes create --clusterName myCluster --file search-config.json --output json
```