Datastore index creation fails with confusing message

Question

After adding a data source (a Cosmos DB), and using the indexer wizard, I get this (see image below) when trying to start/schedule the indexer.

What I have tried:

• checked the documents in the Cosmos DB and could not find the "_path" property,
• removed and re-added the data source.

Not sure if/where there is more debug information to be found.
Can anyone advise/help?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @Thato Mokoena ,

thanks for bringing this to our attention. we are sorry you're facing this issue.

you may be getting this error because your document was read and processed by the indexer, but due to a mismatch in the configuration of the index fields and the data extracted and processed by the indexer, it could not be added to the search index. Please take a look at this doc: EDM data types used in Azure Cognitive Search indexes and documents to make sure the data type is supported on Azure Cognitive Search .

you can also try using the below REST API to configure a schedule:
1.Call Create Indexer or Update Indexer.
2.Set the schedule property in the body of the request:

PUT /indexers/<indexer-name>?api-version=2020-06-30  
{  
    "dataSourceName" : "myazuresqldatasource",  
    "targetIndexName" : "my-target-index-name",  
    "schedule" : { "interval" : "PT10M", "startTime" : "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z" }  
}  

Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have further questions

Thanks,
Grace

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